- "sea"), so al-Bahrayn
originally means literally "the two seas". However, the
name has been
lexicalised as a
feminine proper noun and does not
follow the grammatical...
-
origins for the
name. One
dates to the
Sumerian city of Uruk and is thus
ultimately of
Sumerian origin.
Another possible etymology for the
name is from the...
-
identified by a
name is
called its referent. A
personal name identifies, not
necessarily uniquely, a
specific individual human. The
name of a
specific entity...
- as he said
people would be
attracted there if it had a
favourable name." The
name of the
territory in the
Greenlandic language is
Kalaallit Nunaat 'land...
- (OSCE), and the
World Trade Organisation (WTO). The
name of
Spain (España)
comes from Hispania, the
name used by the
Romans for the
Iberian Peninsula and...
-
officially the
Kingdom of
Thailand and
historically known as Siam (the
official name until 1939), is a
country in
Southeast Asia on the
Indochinese Peninsula...
- the
Celtic root *lukot- ('mouse'), or from *luto- ('marsh, swamp'). The
name Paris is
derived from its
early inhabitants, the Parisii, a
Gallic tribe...
-
meaning 'one who ****embles (skilfully)'.
According to
Iranian mythology, the
name comes from Iraj, a
legendary king. Iran was
referred to as
Persia by the...
-
native name for the
entire island of Hispaniola. The
name was
restored by
Haitian revolutionary Jean-Jacques
Dessalines as the
official name of independent...
- modifications,
introducing a
distinctive name to
designate the country.
Other languages have left the
name untouched, such as the
Russian Туни́с (Tunís)...
