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Maiden and married names. When a person (traditionally the wife in many cultures) assumes the family name of their spouse, in some countries that name replaces the person's previous surname, which in the case of the wife is called the maiden name ("birth name" is also used as a gender-neutral or masculine substitute for maiden name), whereas a ...
Apsaras on Hindu Temple at Banares, 1913. The origin of 'apsara' is the Sanskrit अप्सरस्, apsaras (in the stem form, which is the dictionary form). Note that he stem form ends in 's' as distinct from, e.g. the nominative singular Ramas/Ramaḥ (the deity Ram in Hindi), whose stem form is Rama.
Indian names are based on a variety of systems and naming conventions, which vary from region to region. In Indian culture, names hold profound significance and play a crucial role in an individual's life. The importance of names is deeply rooted in the country's diverse and ancient cultural heritage. Names are also influenced by religion and ...
Maidan is an originally Persian word for a town square or public gathering place (Persian: میدان), adopted by various other languages: Urdu میدان (maidān); Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān); Turkish meydan; Georgian მოედანი (moedani); Bangla ময়দান, meaning field, and Crimean Tatar, from which Ukrainian also borrowed maidan.
-ik if it follows a tree name, has a meaning "grove" [citation needed]-ikh, -ykh [citation needed]-in (Russian (all Eastern Slavic languages), Bulgarian) possessive [citation needed]-ina (female equivalent of -in; especially rare for male names, but the suffix alone is an actual female name) [citation needed]
Adiantum ( / ˌædiˈæntəm / ), [1] the maidenhair fern (not to be confused with the similar-looking maidenhair spleenwort fern ), is a genus of about 250 species of ferns in the subfamily Vittarioideae of the family Pteridaceae, [2] though some researchers place it in its own family, Adiantaceae. The genus name comes from Greek, meaning ...
In Australia, Imogen was the 35th most popular name for baby girls from 2011-13, [6] whilst in England and Wales; it was the 34th most popular baby girl name in 2014. [7] As of July 2014, Imogen had never been in the top 1000 most popular baby names in the United States, with only 131 baby girls named Imogen in the US in 2013. [8]
By Jack Hough, SmartMoney Forget about cash-stuffed wedding envelopes. A Dutch study suggests a way for brides to pick up an extra half million dollars by doing nothing--specifically, by not ...