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Amalia is a female given name, derived from the Germanic root amal, with meanings "vigorous, active, work", specifically the woman's name Amalberga. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Its popularity is attributed to the Belgian Saint Amalberga of Maubeuge .
Amalia Kahana-Carmon was born in Kibbutz Ein Harod on 18 October 1926. She moved to Tel Aviv as a child and studied at Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, but her studies were interrupted by the 1948 Palestine war where she served in the Negev Brigade of Palmach as a signals operator and wrote the famous telegram for the capture of Eilat. [1]
As is stated in the article, Amalia per se is not a Hebrew name, however the word amal (labour, work), from which the name is derived, is. [1] You are correct that the name itself is not from ancient Hebrew. ::The name amal in Arabic means hope. It has nothing to do with the Hebrew. Amalia and Amala are feminine forms of this name.
Amalia, Amelie, Amélie, Amy, Lia, Emma Amelia is a feminine given name. Its English form was likely influenced by the names Amalia , derived from the Germanic root amal , with meanings "vigorous, active, work", and Emilia , derived from the name of the Roman Aemilia gens .
The Name is a novel whose plot traces a young woman named Amalia, daughter of a Holocaust survivor and named after his first wife who was murdered in the Holocaust. The book was awarded the Koret Jewish Book Award and the Kugel Prize for literature, awarded by the Municipality of Holon, and was translated to English and Russian. It received ...
As with all handwriting, cursive Hebrew displays considerable individual variation. The forms in the table below are representative of those in present-day use. [5] The names appearing with the individual letters are taken from the Unicode standard and may differ from their designations in the various languages using them—see Hebrew alphabet § Pronunciation for variation in letter names.
'hope'; Hebrew: עמל, lit. 'toil' or 'labor') is a unisex given name of Hebrew and Arabic origin. It is mentioned in the Books of Chronicles of Hebrew bible. [1] Notable people with the name include: Amal Abul-Qassem Donqol (1940–1983), Egyptian poet; Amal Aden (born 1983), Somali–Norwegian writer
For words and place names which are common in Hebrew, but not in English, a similar guideline to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English) should be used, only for Hebrew: if there is a common Hebrew way of writing the word, it should be transliterated into English from the accepted Hebrew writing, ignoring the Arabic version. An Arabic script ...