# name
## English
### Etymology 1

* PIE word
* *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

* enPR: nām, IPA: /neɪm/
* Audio (US); [nẽːm]:(file)
* Audio (General Australian); [nɛɪ̯m]:(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪm

#### Noun

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.
* A 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
    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 :
    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 :
    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 VII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (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.
* An authority; a 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.‎, 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

* baptismal name
* big name
* binomial name
* birth name
* botanical name
* byname
* christen name
* Christian name
* codename
* code name
* common name
* confirmation name
* deadname
* domain name
* facet name
* family name
* file name
* filename
* first name
* forename
* given name
* honor name
* household name
* last name
* login name
* maiden name
* middle name
* NATO reporting name
* nickname
* pen name
* personal name
* prename
* scientific name
* skin name
* stage name
* surname
* systematic name
* taxonomic name
* to-name
* trade name
* trail name
* true name
* username
* valid name
* vernacular name
* zoological name

##### Derived terms

* a God's name
* a' God's name
* ancestral name
* art name
* assumed name
* baby 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 a dog a bad name and hang him
* 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-letter effect
* 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
* pass-by-name
* 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
* spell one's name
* spell someone's 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

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

##### Translations

Abkhaz: ахьʒ (axʲʒ)
Adyghe: цӏэ (cʼɛ)
Afar: migaq
Afrikaans: naam (af)
Aghul: тур (tur)
Ainu: レ (re)
Akan: edin
Aklanon: ngaean
Albanian: emër (sq) m
American Sign Language: H@RadialFinger-H@CenterChesthigh Contact Contact
Amharic: ስም (səm)
Andi: цӏцӏер (ccʼer)
Arabic: اِسْم (ar) m (ism), أَسْمَاء m pl (ʔasmāʔ)
Chadian Arabic: اسم m (usum)
Cypriot Arabic: ism m
Egyptian Arabic: اسم m (esm)
Hijazi Arabic: اسم m (isim)
Juba Arabic: isim
Moroccan Arabic: اسمية f (smiyya), اسم m (sem)
Tunisian Arabic: اِسْمْ m (ʔism)
Aragonese: nome (an), nombre (an) m
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܫܡܐ m (šəmā)
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: שְׁמָא m (šəmā)
Archi: цӏор (cʼor)
Argobba: ስም (səm)
Armenian: անուն (hy) (anun)
Aromanian: numã f, numi n
Ashkun: nām
Assamese: নাম (nam)
Asturian: nome (ast) m, ñome m
Atong (India): bimung
Avar: цӏар (cʼar)
Azerbaijani: ad (az), isim (az)
Baluchi: نام (nám)
Bashkir: исем (isem), ат (at)
Basque: izen
Beja: sim
Belarusian: імя́ n (imjá), (of a place, class, etc.) назо́ў m (nazóŭ), на́зва f (názva)
Bengali: নাম (bn) (nam)
Bhojpuri: नांव (nānv)
Bikol Central: ngaran (bcl), pangaran (bcl)
Blin: suuŋ
Borôro: ije
Breton: ano (br) m, anv (br) m
Budukh: тур (tur)
Buginese: aseng
Bulgarian: и́ме (bg) n (íme), назва́ние (bg) n (nazvánie), наименова́ние (bg) n (naimenovánie)
Burmese: အမည် (my) (a.many), နာမည် (my) (namany)
Buryat: нэрэ (nere)
Carpathian Rusyn: имня́ n (ymnjá), ме́но n (méno), име́но n (yméno) (poetic)
Catalan: nom (ca) m
Cebuano: ngalan, pangalan
Central Sierra Miwok: ˀoja·še-
Chechen: цӏе (cʼe)
Chepang: मेङ् (meng)
Chichewa: dzina
Chickasaw: holhchifo
Chinese:
Cantonese: 名 (meng$^{4-2}$), 名字 (ming$^4$ zi$^6$), 名稱 / 名称 (ming$^4$ cing$^1$)
Dungan: минзы (minzɨ)
Eastern Min: 名 (miàng), 名字 (miàng-cê)
Gan: 名字 ('miang$^4$ ci$^5$)
Hakka: 名仔 (miàng-é), 名字 (miàng-sṳ) (formal)
Hokkien: 名 (zh-min-nan) (miâ), 名字 (zh-min-nan) (miâ-jī, miâ-lī), 名稱 / 名称 (zh-min-nan) (miâ-chheng) (thing or organisation)
Mandarin: 名 (zh) (míng), 名字 (zh) (míngzi), 名稱 / 名称 (zh) (míngchēng) (thing or organisation)
Northern Min: 名 (miâng), 名字 (miâng-cī)
Wu: 名, 名字
Chiricahua: -́zhii
Chukchi: нынны (nynny)
Chuukese: it
Chuvash: ят (jat)
Coptic: ⲣⲁⲛ (ran)
Cornish: hanow m
Corsican: nomu (co) m
Crimean Tatar: ad, isim
Czech: jméno (cs) n, název (cs) m
Dalmatian: naun m, naum m
Danish: navn (da) n
Dhivehi: ނަން (nan̊)
Dolgan: аат
Dutch: naam (nl) m
Dzongkha: མིང (ming)
Eastern Khanty: нӓм (näm)
Eastern Mari: лӱм (lüm)
Egyptian: (rn)
Elfdalian: nammen n
Erzya: лем (lem)
Eshtehardi: نومَ (nōma)
Esperanto: nomo (eo)
Estonian: nimi (et)
Even: гэрбэ (gərʙə)
Evenki: гэрби (gərbi)
Extremaduran: nombri
Farefare: yʋ'ʋrɛ
Faroese: navn (fo) n
Fataluku: nee
Finnish: nimi (fi) (especially a person), nimitys (fi) (object)
French: nom (fr) m
Middle French: nom m
Old French: nom m
Friulian: non
Galician: nome (gl) m
Garo: বিমুং (bimuŋ)
Georgian: სახელი (saxeli), სახელწოდება (saxelc̣odeba), დასახელება (dasaxeleba)
German: Name (de) m
Gothic: 𐌽𐌰𐌼𐍉 n (namō)
Greek: όνομα (el) n (ónoma)
Ancient: ὄνομα n (ónoma)
Guaraní: téra
Gujarati: નામ (gu) m (nām)
Haitian Creole: non
Hausa: suna (ha)
Hawaiian: inoa
Hebrew: שֵׁם (he) m (shem)
Higaonon: ngadan
Hiligaynon: ngalan
Hindi: नाम (hi) m (nām), इस्म (hi) m (ism) (rare or Muslim context)
Hittite: 𒆷𒀀𒈠𒀭 n (lāman)
Hungarian: név (hu)
Ibanag: ngagan
Icelandic: nafn (is) n
Ido: nomo (io)
Ifè: ɛ́kɔ
Igala: ódú
Igbo: ahà (ig)
Ilocano: nagan
Indonesian: nama (id)
Ingrian: nimi, imi
Ingush: цӏи (cʼi)
Interlingua: nomine
Iranun: ngaran
Irish: ainm (ga) m
Old Irish: ainmm n
Primitive Irish: ᚐᚅᚋ n (anm)
Isan: ซื่อ
Isnag: ngaxan
Istriot: non, nom
Istro-Romanian: nome
Italian: nome (it) m
Japanese: 名前 (ja) (なまえ, namae), 名 (ja) (な, na), (honorific) お名前 (ja) (おなまえ, o-namae), (honorific) ご芳名 (ja) (ごほうめい, go-hōmei), 名称 (ja) (めいしょう, meishō) (thing or organisation)
Javanese: aran, jeneng (jv)
Jeju: 일흠 (ilheum)
Kabardian: цӏэ (kbd) (cʼɛ)
Kalasha: نوم (Latin: nom)
Kalmyk: нерн (nern)
Kamkata-viri: nom
Kannada: ಹೆಸರು (kn) (hesaru)
Kapampangan: lagyu, lagiu
Karachay-Balkar: ат (at)
Karakhanid: ااتْ (āt)
Karelian: nimi
Kashmiri: ناو (nāv)
Kashubian: miono n
Kazakh: есім (esım), ат (kk) (at), аты-жөні (aty-jönı)
Khalaj: ât
Khmer: ឈ្មោះ (km) (chmŭəh), នាម (km) (niəm)
Kikai: 名 (なー, nā)
Kikuyu: rĩĩtwa class 5, rĩtwa class 5
Komi-Permyak: ним (ńim)
Komi-Zyrian: ним (ńim)
Korean: 이름 (ko) (ireum), 성함(姓銜) (ko) (seongham) (honorific), 명칭(名稱) (ko) (myeongching) (thing or organisation)
Kunigami: 名 (なー, nā)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ناو (ckb) (naw)
Northern Kurdish: nav (ku) m, isim (ku), ism (ku)
Kyrgyz: ат (ky) (at), ысым (ky) (ısım)
Ladin: inom, inuem
Ladino: nombre m
Lao: ຊື່ (sư̄), ນາມ (nām)
Latgalian: vuords m
Latin: nōmen (la) n
Latvian: vārds (lv) m
Lezgi: тӏвар (ṭvar)
Ligurian: nómme m, nomme
Lithuanian: vardas (lt) m
Lombard: nomm (lmo)
Lü: ᦋᦹᧈ (tsue¹)
Lucumí: oruko
Luganda: erinnya
Luhya: lisina
Lushootseed: sdaʔ
Luxembourgish: Numm
Maasai: enkarna f
Macedonian: име (mk) n (ime), назив m (naziv)
Maguindanao: ngala
Makasae: nai
Makasar: areng
Malay: nama (ms) n
Malayalam: പേര് (ml) (pērŭ), നാമം (ml) (nāmaṁ)
Maltese: isem m
Manchu: ᡤᡝᠪᡠ (gebu)
Mansaka: aran
Manx: ennym m
Maori: ingoa (mi)
Maranao: ngaran
Marathi: नाव (nāv)
Mauritian Creole: non
Middle English: name
Middle Korean: 일홈〮 (ìlhwóm)
Miyako: 名 (なー, nā)
Mizo: hming
Mòcheno: nu'm m
Moksha: лем (lem)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: нэр (mn) (ner)
Mongolian: ᠨᠡᠷ᠎ᠡ (ner-e)
Mpade: shimu
Mwani: zina
Nanai: гэрбу (gerbu)
Navajo: -́zhiʼ, yízhí
Naxi: miq
Neapolitan: nomme
Nepali: नाम (ne) (nām)
Ngarrindjeri: mitji
Ngazidja Comorian: dzina class 5/6
Nivkh: ӄʼа (qʼa)
North Frisian: (Mooring) noome m; (Föhr-Amrum) nööm m
Northern Amami Ōshima: 名 (なー, nā, なみん, namin)
Northern Mansi: нам (nam)
Northern Sami: namma
Norwegian:
Bokmål: navn (no) n
Nynorsk: namn n
Nǀuu: kaǀî, ka ǀêe
Occitan: nom (oc) m
Odia: ନାମ (or) (nāma)
Ojibwe: wiinzowin
Okinawan: 名 (なー, nā)
Okinoerabu: 名 (なー, nā)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: имѧ n (imę)
Glagolitic: ⰹⰿⱔ n (imę)
Old East Slavic: имѧ n (imę)
Old English: nama m
Old French: num m
Old Javanese: ngaran
Old Persian: [script needed] (nāman)
Old Tupi: era
Olukumi: órúkọ
Oromo: maqaa (om)
Ossetian: ном (nom)
Ottoman Turkish: آد (ad), اسم (ism)
Paiwan: ngadan
Pali: nāma n
Pangasinan: ngaran
Pannonian Rusyn: мено n (meno)
Papiamentu: nòmber
Pashto: نوم (ps) (nūm), اسم (ps) m (esm)
Persian:
Classical Persian: نَام (nām), اِسْم (ism)
Iranian Persian: نام (fa) (nâm), اِسْم (esm)
Piedmontese: nòm m
Pipil: -tukay, -tucay
Pitjantjatjara: ini
Plains Apache: -zhííh
Polish: imię (pl) n (for people or animals), nazwa (pl) f (for objects)
Portuguese: nome (pt) m
Prasuni: nom
Punjabi: ਨਾਂ m (nā̃)
Quechua: suti (qu), huti
Rohingya: nam
Romagnol: nóm m
Romani: nav m
Romanian: nume (ro) n
Romansch: num m, nom m
Russian: и́мя (ru) n (ímja), (of a place, class, etc.) назва́ние (ru) n (nazvánije), наименова́ние (ru) n (naimenovánije)
Saho: migac
Samoan: igoa
Sanskrit: नामन् (sa) n (nā́man)
Sardinian: nomene, nomini, numen, numene
Saterland Frisian: Noome
Scots: name
Scottish Gaelic: ainm m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: и̏ме n, на́зив m
Roman: ȉme (sh) n, náziv (sh) m
Shan: ၸိုဝ်ႈ (shn) (tsūe)
Sherpa: མིང (ming)
Sicilian: nomu (scn) m
Sidamo: suʼma
Silesian: miano n
Sindhi: نالو (sd) (nālō)
Sinhalese: නම (nama)
Skolt Sami: nõmm
Slovak: meno (sk) n, názov (sk) m
Slovene: ime (sl) n, naziv m
Somali: magac
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: mě n
Upper Sorbian: mjeno (hsb) n, imje n, mje n
Sotho: lebitso (st)
Southern Amami Ōshima: 名 (なー, nā)
Southern Sami: nomme
Spanish: nombre (es) m
Sranan Tongo: nen
Sundanese: jenengan, nami
Swahili: jina (sw) sg, majina (sw) pl
Swedish: namn (sv) n
Tabaru: ronga
Tabasaran: ччвур (č̄vur)
Tagalog: ngalan (tl), pangalan (tl)
Tahitian: iʻoa
Tajik: ном (tg) (nom), исм (tg) (ism)
Tamil: பெயர் (ta) (peyar)
Tarifit: isem m
Tatar: исем (tt) (isem), ат (tt) (at)
Tausug: ngan
Telugu: పేరు (te) (pēru), నామము (te) (nāmamu)
Ternate: ronga
Tetum: naran
Thai: ชื่อ (th) (chʉ̂ʉ), นาม (th) (naam)
Tibetan: མིང (ming), མཚན (mtshan) (honorific)
Tidore: ronga
Tigrinya: ስም (səm)
Tocharian A: ñom
Tocharian B: ñem
Tok Pisin: nem (tpi)
Tokunoshima: 名 (なー, nā)
Tongan: hingoa
Tumbuka: zina
Turkish: ad (tr), isim (tr)
Turkmen: at (tk)
Tuvaluan: igoa
Tzotzil: biil
Udi: цӏи (c̣i)
Udmurt: ним (ńim)
Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎎 (šm)
Ukrainian: ім'я́ (uk) n (imʺjá), (of a place, class, etc.) на́зва (uk) f (názva), найменува́ння n (najmenuvánnja)
Umbrian: 𐌍𐌖𐌌𐌄𐌌 (numem), 𐌍𐌏𐌌𐌄 (nome)
Urdu: نام (ur) m (nām), اِسْم (ur) m (ism)
Uyghur: ئات (ug) (at), ئىسىم (ug) (isim)
Uzbek: ism (uz), nom (uz), ot (uz)
Venetan: nome
Vietnamese: tên (vi)
Volapük: nem (vo)
Votic: nimi
Waigali: nām
Wakhi: nung
Walloon: no (wa) m
Welsh: enw (cy)
West Frisian: namme (fy) c
Western Apache: -̨́-̨́zhi’, -́zhi’
Western Bukidnon Manobo: ngazan
White Hmong: lub npe
Wutunhua: minze
Xhosa: ifani
Yaeyama: 名 (なー, nā)
Yagnobi: нум (num)
Yakut: аат (aat)
Yámana: wapus
Yiddish: נאָמען m (nomen)
Yogad: ngagan
Yonaguni: 名 (なー, nā)
Yoron: 名 (なー, nā)
Yoruba: orúkọ
Yucatec Maya: kʼaabaʼ
Yup'ik: ateq
Zande: rima
Zazaki: name (diq), nom
Zealandic: naem m
Zhuang: mingzcih, mingzcoh, coh
Zulu: igama (zu) class 5/6, ibizo (zu) class 5/6 :
Albanian: emër (sq)
Arabic: اِشْتِهَار m (ištihār)
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܫܡܐ m (šəmā)
Armenian: անուն (hy) (anun)
Bulgarian: и́ме (bg) n (íme)
Catalan: reputació (ca) f
Czech: jméno (cs) n
Dutch: naam (nl) m, roep (nl) m
Egyptian: (rn)
Esperanto: nomo (eo)
Finnish: nimi (fi), maine (fi)
French: nom (fr) m
Georgian: სახელი (saxeli)
German: Name (de) m, Ruf (de) m
Greek: όνομα (el) n (ónoma)
Hebrew: שֵׁם (he) m (shem)
Hindi: नाम (hi) (nām), प्रतिष्ठा (hi) (pratiṣṭhā)
Hungarian: hírnév (hu)
Interlingua: fama, reputation
Italian: fama (it) f, riputazione f
Japanese: 評判 (ja) (ひょうばん, hyōban)
Korean: 평판 (ko) (pyeongpan), 명성 (ko) (myeongseong), 세평 (sepyeong)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ناو (ckb) (naw)
Latin: fama f, existimatio f
Luganda: erinnya
Macedonian: углед m (ugled)
Malay: nama (ms) n
Marathi: प्रतिष्ठा (mr) (pratiṣṭhā), नाव (nāv)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: navn (no) n, ry (no) n
Ottoman Turkish: چاو (çav)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: نام (fa) (nâm), نامْوَر (nâmvar)
Polish: reputacja (pl) f, sława (pl) f
Portuguese: nome (pt) m, fama (pt) f, reputação (pt) f
Romanian: reputație (ro) f, renume (ro) n, nume (ro) n, faimă (ro)
Russian: и́мя (ru) n (ímja), репута́ция (ru) f (reputácija), сла́ва (ru) f (sláva), реноме́ (ru) n (renomɛ́)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: у̏гле̄д m
Roman: ȕglēd (sh) m
Slovene: ime (sl) n
Spanish: fama (es) f, reputación (es) f, renombre (es) m
Swahili: jina (sw)
Swedish: namn (sv) n
Telugu: కీర్తి (te) (kīrti)
Tibetan: སྙན་གྲགས (snyan grags), སྐད་གྲགས (skad grags), གྲགས་པ (grags pa), སྐད་གྲགས་པ (skad grags pa)
Turkish: nam (tr)
Ukrainian: репута́ція f (reputácija)
Vietnamese: tiếng tăm (vi)
Walloon: rilomêye (wa) f
Yiddish: נאָמען m (nomen)
Zazaki: nam (diq) :
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##### See also

* alias
* anonymous
* appellation
* cognomen
* namely
* nom de guerre
* nom de plume
* nominal
* pseudonym

#### 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)
* (ditransitive) To give a name to.
    One visitor named Hou Yugang said he was not too concerned about climate change and Baishui’s melting.
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** 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, 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.
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* (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

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

##### Derived terms

* bename
* codename
* misname
* my very easy method just speeds up naming planets
* name after
* name and shame
* name names
* rename
* to be named later
* unname
* you name it

##### Translations

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#### See also

* christen
* epithet
* moniker
* sobriquet

### Etymology 3

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

#### Alternative forms

* ñame, namé

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /n(j)ɑmeɪ/
* This entry needs an audio pronunciation. If you are a native speaker with a microphone, please record this word. The recorded pronunciation will appear here when it's ready.

#### Noun

name (plural names)
* 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
* plural of naam

## Central Malay
### Etymology

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

### Noun

name
* 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 ?
* (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

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

name
* (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of nemen

### Noun

name
* (archaic) dative singular of naam

### Anagrams

* amen, mane

## Eastern Arrernte
### Noun

name
* grass

### References

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

## Japanese
### Romanization

name
* Rōmaji transcription of なめ

## Lithuanian
### Noun

name m
* locative singular of namas
* vocative singular of namas

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology 1

From Old Dutch namo.

#### Noun

nāme m or f
* name
* 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
* taking
* 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 (West Midland, Southern)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnaːm(ə)/
* IPA: /ˈnɔːm(ə)/, /ˈnɒːm(ə)/ (West Midlands or Southern)

### Noun

name (plural names or namen)
* name

#### Related terms

* surname

#### Descendants

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

#### 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: (before 13th CE) /ˈnamə/

### Noun

name m
* name
* (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:
    Nam, vornam, wort, darnâch zûwort, teilfanc, zûfûg ich sach, vorsatz, înworf under irem dach gemunzet und geformet stân.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### 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: /nɑːˈmɛ/

### Noun

name f
* letter (a document)

## Ojibwe
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Algonquian *name·wa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nʌˈmeː/

### Noun

name anim (plural namewag, diminutive namens)
* sturgeon, especially lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens)

#### Derived terms

* namekaa

#### Descendants

* Potawatomi: namé (“sturgeon”)

### References

* The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/name-na

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀦𑀫𑁂 (Brahmi script)
* नमे (Devanagari script)
* নমে (Bengali script)
* නමෙ (Sinhalese script)
* နမေ or ၼမေ (Burmese script)
* นเม or นะเม (Thai script)
* ᨶᨾᩮ (Tai Tham script)
* ນເມ or ນະເມ (Lao script)
* នមេ (Khmer script)
* 𑄚𑄟𑄬 (Chakma script)

### Verb

name
* singular optative active of namati (“to bend”)

## Volapük
### Noun

name
* dative singular of nam

## Yola
### Noun

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

* 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: /nɔːme/

### Noun

name (nam)
* name
* reputation