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Yemen, [a] officially the Republic of Yemen, [b] is a country in West Asia. [12] Located in southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to the north, Oman to the northeast, the Red Sea to the west, the Gulf of Aden to the south, and the southeasten part of the Arabian sea to the east, sharing maritime borders with Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia across the Horn of Africa.
As an example of its distinctiveness, during an appearance of the would-be parliament speaker of Yemen, Abdullah Alahmar, on Al-Jazeera TV some years ago, viewers and the TV host needed a translation of his Yemeni dialect into Standard Arabic in order to understand what he said. [citation needed]
There are many variations on this name and its spelling due to language transfer issues between old Spanish, Modern Spanish, and Arabic. [2] During the Middle Ages, the name Abu al-Faraj (Arabic: أبو الفرج, lit. 'Father of Faraj') was a title for many Arab and Jewish poets and scholars. [2] Notable people with the name Faraj include:
Yemen is one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Near East. [1] Its relatively fertile land and adequate rainfall in a moister climate helped sustain a stable population, a feature recognized by the ancient Greek geographer Ptolemy, who described Yemen as Eudaimon Arabia, meaning "Fertile Arabia" or "Happy Arabia".
Yaman is a Turkish male given name and it means redoubtable, stalwart, intelligent, efficient, strong. [1] It's also Arabic male given name (يَمان) which refers to someone who is from Yemen and it means blessing and plenty of goodness.
The Latin term Arabia Felix was the Roman translation of the earlier Hellenistic Greek: Εὐδαίμων Ἀραβία, romanized: Eudaimon Arabia, attributed to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Felix has the meanings of both "fecund, fertile" and "happy, fortunate, blessed", this area being the best irrigated of the Arabian peninsula.
In Urdu (Urdu: عامر) the name has the same meaning as the original in Arabic, meaning ‘prince”. In Pashto (Pashto: امير) the name comes to mean ‘leader’ or ‘boss’. In Hebrew, when spelt אמיר the name means crown (treetop). When spelt עמיר the name means a small sheaf or bundle (of grain, usually wheat or barley) [1]
The meaning and origin of name of Latvian people is unclear, however the root lat-/let- is associated with several Baltic hydronyms and might share common origin with the Liet-part of neighbouring Lithuania (Lietuva, see below) and name of Latgalians – one of the Baltic tribes that are considered ancestors of modern Latvian people.