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Other Indo-European languages name man for his mortality, *mr̥tós meaning ' mortal ', so in Armenian mard, Persian mard, Sanskrit marta and Greek βροτός meaning ' mortal, human '. This is comparable to the Semitic word for ' man ' , represented by Arabic insan إنسان (cognate with Hebrew ʼenōš אֱנוֹשׁ ), from a root for ...
This list of Scottish Gaelic given names shows Scottish Gaelic given names beside their English language equivalent. In some cases, the equivalent can be a cognate , in other cases it may be an Anglicised spelling derived from the Gaelic name, or in other cases it can be an etymologically unrelated name.
There is no single name that is widely accepted, but the name of Sukarno, Indonesia's first president, can be found in many articles; it has the advantages of being Javanese (about 45% of the Indonesian population), a single word (see Indonesian name), and well-known. Other male names: Joni (Indonesian for Johnny), and Budi (widely used in ...
Names are mostly gender specific; however, new females names could be invented by adding -ə to a male name (for example, male name Ilham could easily be converted into a female name Ilhama). Unlike Turkish names , Azeri name are limited by law to one name per child.
Other cultures use other structures for full names. A personal name, full name or prosoponym (from Ancient Greek prósōpon – person, and onoma –name) [1] is the set of names by which an individual person or animal is known. When taken together as a word-group, they all relate to that one individual. [2]
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Violeta (Cyrillic: Виолета, romanized: Violeta, Greek: Βιολέτα, romanized: Violéta) is a female given name. Notable people with the name include: Violeta Alexandru (born 1975), Romanian politician; Violeta Andrei (born 1941), Romanian actress; Violeta Autumn (1930–2012), Peruvian—American architect
Slang forms exist for male names and, since a few decades ago, female names. They are formed with the suffixes -ян (-yan), -он (-on), and -ок/ёк (-ok/yok). The suffixes give the sense of "male brotherhood" that was once expressed by the patronymic-only form of address in the Soviet Union.