name

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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English name, nome, from Old English nama, noma, from Proto-West Germanic *namō, from Proto-Germanic *namô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥. Cognates include Saterland Frisian Noome, West Frisian namme, Dutch naam, German Name, Danish navn, Swedish namn, Latin nōmen (whence Spanish nombre), Russian имя (imja), Sanskrit नामन् (nāman). Possible cognates outside of Indo-European include Finnish nimi and Hungarian név. Doublet of nomen and noun.

Pronunciation

• enPR: nām, IPA^(key): /neɪm/
• Rhymes: -eɪm

Noun

name (plural names)

1. Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.

   Synonyms: proper name; see also Thesaurus:name

2. Reputation.
   • 1952, Old Testament, Revised Standard Version, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 2 Samuel 8:13:

     And David won a name for himself.

3. An abusive or insulting epithet.

4. A person (or legal person).
   • p. 2002, second edition of, 2002, Graham Richards, Putting Psychology in its Place, →ISBN, page 287 [1]

     Later British psychologists interested in this topic include such major names as Cyril Burt, William McDougall, […] .

   • 2008 edition of, 1998, S. B. Budhiraja and M. B. Athreya, Cases in Strategic Management, →ISBN page 79 [2]:

     Would it be able to fight the competition from ITC Agro Tech and Liptons who were ready and able to commit large resources? With such big names as competitors, would this business be viable for Marico?

   • 2009 third edition of, 1998, Martin Mowforth and Ian Munt, Tourism and Sustainability, →ISBN, page 29 [3]:

     International non-governmental organisations (INGOs), including such household names as Amnesty International, Greenpeace and […] .

5. Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
6. Authority; behalf.
7. (computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
8. (UK, finance) An investor in Lloyd's of London bearing unlimited liability.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Sranan Tongo: nen
• → Japanese: ネーム (nēmu)

Translations

See also

References

• name on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English namen, from Old English namian (“to name, mention”) and ġenamian (“to name, call, appoint”), from Proto-West Germanic *namōn (“to name”). Compare also Old English nemnan, nemnian (“to name, give a name to a person or thing”).

Verb

name (third-person singular simple present names, present participle naming, simple past and past participle named)

1. (ditransitive) To give a name to.
2. (transitive) To mention, specify.

3. (transitive) To identify as relevant or important

4. (transitive) To publicly implicate by name.

5. (transitive, of a person) To disclose the name of.

6. (transitive) To designate for a role.

   Synonym: nominate

7. (transitive, Westminster system politics) To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.

Synonyms

• (give a name to): bename, designate, dub; see also Thesaurus:denominate
• (specify): nominate; see also Thesaurus:specify

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Spanish ñame, substituting n for the unfamiliar Spanish letter ñ. Doublet of yam.

Alternative forms

• ñame, namé

Pronunciation

Noun

name (plural names)

1. Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.

Synonyms

• cush-cush
• greater yam

Translations

Anagrams

• -mane, -nema, Amen, Eman, Enma, MEAN, MENA, Mena, NEMA, NMEA, amen, mane, mean, mnae, neam

Afrikaans

Noun

name

1. plural of naam

Central Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit नामन् (nāman). Cognate with English name.

Noun

name

1. name

References

• "Besemah" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German name, from Old High German namo.

Noun

name ?

1. (Tredici Comuni) name

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

name

1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of nemen

Noun

name

1. (archaic) dative singular of naam

Anagrams

• amen, mane

Eastern Arrernte

Noun

name

1. grass

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Japanese

Romanization

name

1. Rōmaji transcription of なめ

Lithuanian

Noun

name m

1. locative singular of namas
2. vocative singular of namas

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch namo.

Noun

nāme m or f

1. name
2. fame, reputation

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• nāmen

Descendants

• Dutch: naam
• Limburgish: naam, naom

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch *nāma, from Proto-Germanic *nēmō.

Noun

nâme f

1. taking
2. receiving

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

• nēmen

Descendants

• Dutch: name (mostly in compounds)

Further reading

• “name”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “name (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “name (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

Middle English

Alternative forms

• nome

Etymology

From Old English nama, from Proto-West Germanic *namō, from Proto-Germanic *namô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaːm(ə)/

Noun

name (plural names or namen)

1. name

Related terms

• surname

Descendants

• English: name
  • → Sranan Tongo: nen
  • → Japanese: ネーム
• Geordie English: nyem
• Scots: name, naim, nem, nome
• Yola: naame, naume, name

References

• “nāme, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Middle High German

Alternative forms

• nam

Etymology

Inherited from Old High German namo, from Proto-West Germanic *namō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈnamə/

Noun

name m

1. name
2. (grammar) noun
   • 14th century, Heinrich von Mügeln. Normalised spellings: 1867, Karl Julis Schröer, Die Dichtungen Heinrichs von Mügeln (Mogelîn) nach den Handschriften besprochen, Wien, p. 476:

Declension

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Naame

  Italian Walser: namä, noame, nomu, nàmund

• Bavarian: Nama, Nam, Nåm

  Cimbrian: nåm, name, naamo

  Mòcheno: nu'm

  Udinese: nome, nòmm, nome, nomat

• German: Name, Namen
• Luxembourgish: Numm
• Rhine Franconian:

  Pennsylvania German: Naame

• Yiddish: נאָמען (nomen)

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian نامه (nâme).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɑːˈmɛ/

Noun

name f

1. letter (a document)

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

name

1. singular optative active of namati (“to bend”)

Volapük

Noun

name

1. dative singular of nam

Yola

Noun

name

1. Alternative form of naame

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114

Zazaki

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔːme/

Noun

name (nam)

1. name
2. reputation