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Gudit (Ge'ez: ጉዲት) is the Classical Ethiopic name for a personage also known as Yodit in Tigrinya, and Amharic, but also Isato in Amharic, and Ga'wa in Ţilţal. [1] The person behind these various alternative names is portrayed as a powerful female ruler, probably identical to Māsobā Wārq, the daughter of the last Aksumite king , Dil ...
Gebre (Ge'ez: ገብረ, Gäbrä) is a common masculine Ethiopian and Eritrean name, meaning "servant" in Ge'ez.It is used as both a stand-alone given name and, frequently, as a prefix (or stem) in religiously themed compound names; e.g. Gebreselassie ("Servant of the Trinity"), Gebremeskel ("Servant of the Cross"), or Gebremariam ("Servant of Mary").
In modern Ethiopia, a person's legal name includes both the father and the individual's given names, so that the father's given name becomes the child's "last name", there is no actual middle name. In Ethiopia, and traditionally in Eritrea, the naming conventions follow the father's line of descent while certain exemptions can be made in ...
Kristos Samra lived in the 15th century (no exact dates of her birth or death appear in her hagiography). [5] The main source on her life is the Gadle Kristos Samra (The Life of Kristos Samra), a hagiography written in Ethiopic by a scribe named Filippos about her around 1508. [6] Before she died, she told Filippos her biography and thirty of ...
Hannah, also spelled Hanna, Hana, Hanah, or Chana, is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin. It is derived from the root ḥ-n-n, meaning "favour" or "grace". A Dictionary of First Names attributes the name to a word meaning 'He (God) has favoured me with a child'.
Ayana (あやな, アヤナ) is a feminine Japanese given name which can be written using different kanji with different meanings: 彩菜, "colorful, greens" 彩那, "colorful, what" 彩名, "colorful, name" 綾奈, "design, what" 朱菜, "vermilion, greens" The name can also be written in either hiragana or katakana.
The book entitled Gedle Arsema, meaning "Martyr of Arsema", is found almost in every spiritual bookshop throughout Ethiopia. Her story is told in the Ethiopian Synaxarium on Mäskäräm 29 (which equates to 26 or 27 September on the Julian Calendar , and 9 or 10 October on the Gregorian Calendar ) which coincides with the date of the saint's ...
Mehari (Amharic: መሀሪ (mehārī) or መሐሪ (meḥārī), its literal meaning in the Amharic-language being "merciful", "forgiving") [1] is a male given name of Ethiopian and Eritrean origin [2] which like all Ethiopian male given names can also be used as a surname [3] and may refer to: