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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
| PIE word |
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| *h₁nómn̥ |
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[edit]
Noun[edit]
name (plural names)
- Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
- Synonyms: proper name; see also Thesaurus:name
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 2:19:
- […] and whatsoeuer Adam called euery liuing creature, that was the name thereof.
- 1904, L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz:
- So good a man as this must surely have a name.
- 2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist:
- Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
- I've never liked the name my parents gave me so I changed it at the age of twenty.
- What's your name?
Puddintane. Ask me again and I'll tell you the same.
- Reputation.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
- Good name in man and woman, dear my lord
Is the immediate jewel of their souls.
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.
- 1952, Old Testament, Revised Standard Version, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 2 Samuel 8:13:
- And David won a name for himself.
- An abusive or insulting epithet.
- Stop calling me names!
- A person (or legal person).
- 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- They list with women each degenerate name.
- 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 […] .
- Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 7, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name, came every day to pay their feigned civilities.
- Authority; behalf.
- Halt in the name of the law!
- 1881, George Barnett Smith, chapter XVI, in The Life and Speeches of the Right Hon. John Bright, M.P.[4], volume II, London: Hodder and Stroughton, page 541:
- We may be quite sure, therefore, that in some shape, if we, the people of England, tolerate the bloody and sanguinary crimes which are committed in our name, if they are so committed, and we do not remonstrate and condemn, we shall have no acquittal at that tribunal by which the actions, not of individuals only, but of nations and peoples, are finally judged.
- (computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
- (UK, finance) An investor in Lloyd's of London bearing unlimited liability.
Hyponyms[edit]
- baptismal name
- big name
- binomial name
- birth name
- botanical name
- byname
- Christian name
- codename
- code name
- common name
- confirmation name
- deadname
- domain name
- facet name
- family name
- filename
- file name
- first name
- forename
- given name
- honor name
- household name
- last name
- maiden name
- middle name
- nickname
- pen name
- personal name
- prename
- scientific name
- skin name
- stage name
- surname
- systematic name
- taxonomic name
- to-name
- trade name
- true name
- username
- vernacular name
- zoological name
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms of name that are not hyponyms
- a' God's name
- a God's name
- ancestral name
- art name
- assumed name
- bad name
- baptismal name
- big-name
- binary name
- binominal name
- boy's name
- brand-name
- brand name
- bullet with someone's name on it
- by name
- by-name
- by the name of
- call-by-name
- calling name
- call out of one's name
- call outta one's name
- call someone every name in the book
- caressing name
- clear someone's name
- coined name
- courtesy name
- cover name
- danger is one's middle name
- dead-name
- dead name
- death-name
- domain name server
- domain name service
- era name
- folk name
- font name
- friendly name
- front name
- full name
- generic name
- genus name
- girl's name
- give a bad name
- give name to
- go by the name of
- golden falcon name
- Golden Horus name
- gold name
- good name
- government name
- grex name
- have one's name in the Gazette
- have one's name on
- have one's name taken
- have one's name written all over
- Horus name
- Horus of Gold name
- ill name
- impure name
- in all but name
- in God's name
- in heaven's name
- in name
- international nonproprietary name
- in the name of
- in the name of all that is holy
- in the name of heaven
- in the name of the law
- is my middle name
- it doesn't matter what they say about you as long as they spell your name right
- IUPAC name
- Latin name
- lead name
- legal name
- letters after one's name
- little name
- long file name
- make a name for oneself
- maker's name
- man with no name
- married name
- my name is
- name-based type system
- name-bearing type
- name binding
- nameboard, name board
- name brand
- name-caller
- name-calling
- name card
- name change
- name day
- name-drop
- name drop
- name-dropper
- name dropper
- name dropping
- name-dropping
- name for
- name is mud
- name names
- name of the game
- name one's poison
- nameplate, name plate
- name reaction
- namesake
- name-sake
- name server
- name sign
- namespace
- name the day
- name to conjure with
- name vase
- nameword
- NATO reporting name
- Nebty name
- new-name
- new name
- no-name
- occupational name
- on a first-name basis
- one's name is mud
- on first-name terms
- pen-name
- pet name
- phonetic name
- phrase name
- place-name
- place name
- porn star name
- posthumous name
- praise name
- preoccupied name
- pure name
- purser's name
- put a name to
- put one's name in the hat
- radicofunctional name
- regnal name
- ring name
- run one's name
- screen name
- second name
- self name
- self-name
- serekh name
- Seth name
- short file name
- sign name
- slave name
- smush name
- species name
- specific name
- street name
- subspecific name
- Sunday name
- systematic element name
- take someone's name in vain
- tee-name
- temple name
- ternary name
- three-name
- throne name
- throw one's name in the hat
- to name a few
- to one's name
- toss one's name in the hat
- trivial name
- Two Ladies name
- two-name paper
- user name
- virtue name
- wallet name
- what is her name
- what is his name
- what is your name
- what's-his-name
- what's in a name
- what's-its-name
- what's your name
- why in God's name
- word name
- your good name
Descendants[edit]
Translations[edit]
word or phrase indicating a particular person, place, class or thing
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reputation — see also reputation
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abusive or insulting epithet
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computing: unique identifier
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
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[edit]
name (third-person singular simple present names, present participle naming, simple past and past participle named)
- (ditransitive) To give a name to.
- One visitor named Hou Yugang said he was not too concerned about climate change and Baishui’s melting.
Audio (US) (file)
- 1904, L. Frank Baum, The Land of Oz:
- I will name the fellow 'Jack Pumpkinhead!'
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.
- (transitive) To mention, specify.
- He named his demands.
- You name it!
- You have to pot the ball in the pocket you've named.
- 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America[5], archived from the original on 7 February 2019:
- The three countries were named in a new study from the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO.
Audio (US) (file)
- (transitive) To identify as relevant or important
- naming the problem
- (transitive) To publicly implicate by name.
- The painter was named as an accomplice.
- (transitive, of a person) To disclose the name of.
- Police are not naming the suspect as he is a minor.
- (transitive) To designate for a role.
- Synonym: nominate
- My neighbor was named to the steering committee.
- (transitive, Westminster system politics) To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.
- 2013 July 10, John (Speaker of the House of Commons) Bercow, (Please provide the book title or journal name), to MP Nigel Dodds:
- I must warn the Right Honourable gentleman, that if he persists in his refusal to comply with my order to withdraw [the words "deliberately deceptive"], I shall be compelled to name him.
Synonyms[edit]
- (give a name to): bename, designate, dub; see also Thesaurus:denominate
- (specify): nominate; see also Thesaurus:specify
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from name (verb)
Translations[edit]
to give a name to
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to mention, specify
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to identify, define, specify
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to publicly implicate
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to designate for a role
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See also[edit]
Etymology 3[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish ñame, substituting n for the unfamiliar Spanish letter ñ. Doublet of yam.
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
name (plural names)
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Afrikaans[edit]
Noun[edit]
name
Central Malay[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Sanskrit नामन् (nāman). Cognate with English name.
Noun[edit]
name
References[edit]
- "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[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle High German name, from Old High German namo.
Noun[edit]
name ?
References[edit]
- 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[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Verb[edit]
name
Noun[edit]
name
Anagrams[edit]
Eastern Arrernte[edit]
Noun[edit]
name
References[edit]
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Japanese[edit]
Romanization[edit]
name
Lithuanian[edit]
Noun[edit]
name m
Middle Dutch[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
nāme m or f
Inflection[edit]
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old Dutch *nāma, from Proto-Germanic *nēmō.
Noun[edit]
nâme f
Inflection[edit]
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Dutch: name (mostly in compounds)
Further reading[edit]
- “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[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English nama, from Proto-West Germanic *namō, from Proto-Germanic *namô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “nāme, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Northern Kurdish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Persian نامه (nâme).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
name f
- letter (a document)
Pali[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Alternative forms
Verb[edit]
name
Volapük[edit]
Noun[edit]
name
Yola[edit]
Noun[edit]
name
- Alternative form of naame
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 6-7:
- wi vengem o' core t'gie oure zense o' ye gradès whilke be ee-dighte wi yer name;
- to pour forth from the strength of our hearts, our sense of the qualities which characterise your name,
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 8-9:
- wee hert ee zough o'ye colure o' pace na name o' Mulgrave.
- we heard the distant sound of the wings of the dove of peace, in the word Mulgrave.
References[edit]
- 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[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
name (nam)
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