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Help[Facts] Re: Amadou
in reply to a message by Array
This is probably a West African form of Ahmad. I found one site in French that stated that directly. Then the following site on Gambian names:
http://resourcepage.gambia.dk/names.htm
says that Amadou was "one of the names of Muhammad", and Digest of Muslim Names by Fatimah Suzanne Al Jafari, A Dictionary of Muslim Names by Salahuddin Ahmed, and The Complete Book of Muslim & Parsi Names by Gandhi & Husain all agree that Ahmed is one of the names of Muhammad. So it seems probable to me that Amadou is derived from Ahmed or Ahmad.
http://resourcepage.gambia.dk/names.htm
says that Amadou was "one of the names of Muhammad", and Digest of Muslim Names by Fatimah Suzanne Al Jafari, A Dictionary of Muslim Names by Salahuddin Ahmed, and The Complete Book of Muslim & Parsi Names by Gandhi & Husain all agree that Ahmed is one of the names of Muhammad. So it seems probable to me that Amadou is derived from Ahmed or Ahmad.
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Interestingly, my father's friend is called 'Amador', and is Brazilian, of French origin. I always thought i meant 'lover'.
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Amador, a Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Occitan... name, comes from the Latin personal name Amator, from amator, amatoris, "that loves, lover". The name was used among the early Christians symbolically ("one who loves God").
The Occitan form is Amador (pronounced [ama'du]) and sometimes it is misspelled *Amadour or *Amadou, because of the French influence.
The Occitan form is Amador (pronounced [ama'du]) and sometimes it is misspelled *Amadour or *Amadou, because of the French influence.
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Amador could very well be lover in Spanish?
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Lover in Spanish (and Portuguese for that matter) is amante, I don't think Amador is a Spanish word (unless it's slang maybe).
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Amador is really a Spanish word (just as amante is), it means "that loves" but it doesn't connote a sexual thing. Amante could be a synonim of amador ("that loves") or a sexual/romantic lover.
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Excellent! Thank you, CKE.
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