Ludmila

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Means "favour of the people" from the Slavic elements lyudu "people" and milu "gracious, dear". Saint Ludmila was a 10th-century duchess of Bohemia, the grandmother of Saint Václav. She was murdered on the orders of her daughter-in-law Drahomíra.... [more]

LYUDMILA   female   Russian, Bulgarian, Medieval Slavic
Russian and Bulgarian form of LUDMILA. This was the name of a character in Aleksandr Pushkin's poem 'Ruslan and Lyudmila' (1820).
EQUIVALENTS
BULGARIAN: Ludmilla, Lyudmila
CZECH: Ludmila
MEDIEVAL SLAVIC: Lyudmila
POLISH: Ludmiła
RUSSIAN: Ludmila, Ludmilla, Lyudmila
SLOVENE: Ljudmila
UKRAINIAN: Lyudmyla
DIMINUTIVES AND SHORT FORMS
CZECH: Lída
MASCULINE FORMS
BULGARIAN: Lyudmil
MACEDONIAN: Ljudmil
MEDIEVAL SLAVIC: Lyudmil