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Meaning. Moe used in slang refers to feelings of affection, adoration, devotion, and excitement felt towards characters that appear in manga, anime, video games, and other media (usually Japanese). Characters that elicit feelings of moe are called " moe characters". [1] [2] The word has also evolved to be used regarding all kinds of topics.
Emishi. The Emishi ( 蝦夷) (also called Ebisu and Ezo ), written with Kanji that literally mean " shrimp barbarians ," constituted an ancient ethnic group of people who lived in parts of Honshū, especially in the Tōhoku region, referred to as michi no oku (道の奥, roughly "deepest part of the road") in contemporary sources.
These short baby names are perfect for minimalist parents. Some people just like to keep it simple. This holds true even regarding the all-important parental decision of what to name your baby.
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.
Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames (姓, sei), as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written the same in kanji may also be pronounced differently. [2]
St. Monica was born in Numidia in North Africa, but was also a citizen of Carthage, hence the name may be of Punic or Berber origin. It has also been associated with the Greek word monos, meaning "alone". Though etymologically unrelated, "Monica" was also a name in Latin, deriving from the verb monere, meaning 'to advise.'
Moses ( Greek: Μωϋσῆς ), [NB 1] Moishe ( Yiddish: משה ), [NB 2] Moshe ( Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה ), [NB 3] Musa ( Arabic :موسی), [NB 4] or Movses ( Armenian: Մովսես) [NB 5] is a male given name, after the biblical figure Moses . An Egyptian root msy ('child of') has been considered as a possible etymology, arguably an ...
Some Irish-language names derive from English names, e.g. Éamonn from Edmund. Some Irish-language names have English equivalents, both deriving from a common source, e.g Irish Máire (anglicised Maura ), Máirín ( Máire + - ín "a diminutive suffix"; anglicised Maureen) and English Mary all derive from French: Marie, which ultimately derives ...