There are many benefits for having a single-syllable name. One of them is that my name means a lot of different things in various languages. Here are some that I learned about.
Notice that this is the phonetic meaning of the word 'Mor'. Some of these words are spelled differently in the different languages.
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Language |
Meaning of 'Mor' |
Hebrew (original) |
Myrrh, an aromatic substance produced from a specific (yet undetermined) plant, as appears in the bible. |
Hindi |
Peacock (the national bird of India) |
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Tamil,Malayalam |
Buttermilk |
Mongolian |
Horse (happens to be the most important farm animal in Mongolia) |
Multiple Scandinavian languages (Danish,Swedish, Norwegian) |
Mother |
Scottish/Irish |
Big, large, great, important, tall, of high rank, spacious; familiar; esteemed |
German |
Swamp, marshland (spelled: moor); A derogatory term for a black man (mohr) |
Turkish |
Purple |
Sindarin (Elvish, from J.R.R Tolkien, that is; discovery credit: Saskia Groenewegen) |
Dark, Black |
English |
If you've gotten this far, you must know what it means in English (clue: add 'e' at the end). |