Tamra
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- [ TAM-rə ]
- English
Contracted form of TAMARA.
 | TAMARA female Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, English, Dutch, Spanish, Italian Russian form of TAMAR. Russian performers such as Tamara Karsavina (1885-1978), Tamara Drasin (1905-1943), Tamara Geva (1907-1997) and Tamara Toumanova (1919-1996) introduced it to the English-speaking world. It was also borne by the Polish cubist painter Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980). | |||||||||||||||||||
| TAMAR female Hebrew, Georgian, Biblical, Biblical Hebrew Means "palm tree" in Hebrew. According to the Old Testament Tamar was the daughter-in-law of Judah and later his wife. This was also the name of a daughter of King David. She was raped by her half-brother Amnon, leading to his murder by her brother Absalom. The name was borne by a 12th-century ruling queen of Georgia who presided over the kingdom at the peak of its power. | |||||||||||||||||||
| EQUIVALENTS |
| BIBLICAL GREEK: Thamar |
| BIBLICAL HEBREW: Tamar |
| BIBLICAL LATIN: Thamar |
| BIBLICAL: Tamar |
| CROATIAN: Tamara |
| CZECH: Tamara |
| DUTCH: Tamara |
| ENGLISH: Tamara, Tamera, Tammara |
| GEORGIAN: Tamar, Tamari |
| HEBREW: Tamar |
| ITALIAN: Tamara |
| MACEDONIAN: Tamara |
| POLISH: Tamara |
| RUSSIAN: Tamara |
| SERBIAN: Tamara |
| SLOVAK: Tamara |
| SLOVENE: Tamara |
| SPANISH: Tamara |
| UKRAINIAN: Tamara |
| DIMINUTIVES AND SHORT FORMS |
| ENGLISH: Tami, Tamia, Tammi, Tammie, Tammy |
| RUSSIAN: Toma |