Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Pages in category "Filipino feminine given names" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
They were originally full Chinese names that were transliterated into Spanish orthography and adopted as surnames. Common single-syllable Chinese Filipino surnames are Tan ( 陳 ), Lim ( 林 ), Chua ( 蔡 ), Uy ( 黃) and Ong ( 王 ). Most such surnames are spelled according to their Hokkien pronunciation.
Lintik is a Tagalog word meaning "lightning", also a mildly profane word used to someone contemptible, being wished to be hit by lightning, such as in " Lintik ka!''. [2] The term is mildly vulgar and an insult, but may be very vulgar in some cases, [20] especially when mixed with other profanity.
Fatima ( Arabic: فَاطِمَة, Fāṭimah ), also spelled Fatimah, is a feminine given name of Arabic origin used throughout the Muslim world. Several relatives of the Islamic prophet Muhammad had the name, including his daughter Fatima as the most famous one. The literal meaning of the name is one who weans an infant or one who abstains.
The current pronunciation of the province's name in both English and Filipino is different from the Spanish original, in that the emphasis is placed on the second syllable ("e-SI-ha") and not on the first ("E-si-ha"). Nueva Vizcaya. nueva Vizcaya, Spanish for "new Biscay", in honor of the province in the Basque Country of Spain. Palawan
Rhiannon is a feminine Welsh given name (pronounced [r̥iˈanɔn]) possibly derived from the Old Celtic title Rigantona, meaning great queen. It is borne by Rhiannon, a major figure in Welsh mythology, but was not in common use as a given name until the 20th century. [1] It rose in use in the Anglosphere after the release of the 1975 song ...
It originated from Aisha, the third wife of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, and is a very popular name among Muslim women. Ayesha and Aisha are common variant spelling in the Arab World and among American Muslim women in the United States, where it was ranked 2,020 out of 4,275 for females of all ages in the 1990 US Census. [1]
Jeffrey, Joffrey, Geoff, Jeff. Look up Geoffrey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Geoffrey is an English and German masculine given name. It is generally considered the Anglo-Norman form of the Germanic compound *gudą 'god' and *friþuz 'peace'. [1] It is a derivative of Dutch Godfried, German Gottfried and Old English Gotfrith and Godfrith .