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Help[Opinions] Mata
I know this isn’t really a name, but pretend it is for a second. What do you think?
Inspired by Mata Hari, whose name comes from the Malay word matahari, meaning “sun”.
Thanks!
Inspired by Mata Hari, whose name comes from the Malay word matahari, meaning “sun”.
Thanks!
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It means “kill” in Spanish
So I have to give it a definite no.
So I have to give it a definite no.
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Ah, yeah I'd forgotten about matar... even less appealing now lol
Don't often use that word!
Don't often use that word!
This message was edited 8/17/2021, 4:21 PM
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Don't like it
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I strongly dislike it.
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I rather like that it means so many things in so many languages! But it does seem a bit truncated. I want there to be more of it. Mata_.
I know she's pretty problematic but the idea of naming someone after Mata Hari delights me in a scandalous way. Maybe a cat!
I know she's pretty problematic but the idea of naming someone after Mata Hari delights me in a scandalous way. Maybe a cat!
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I love scandalous names, too. They’re fun! I’m struggling to think of examples right now, though. I liked the harpy comparison someone made on my thread about Harper.
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It's the Swedish word for 'feed/feeding)' So I'm not a fan.
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Ugh, I totally knew that too!
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It means bush in Spanish, so it comes off a bit weird... but I guess no different from naming your kid any other nature name.
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I didn’t know that, thanks for the info!
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I looked it up in other languages too, figuring if it means something in English it likely has a meaning in other romance languages:
Portuguese - woods
Romanian - silk
And matahari may be sun in Indonesian but just mata apparently means eye. It also apparently means eyes/eye in Cebuano, Filipino, Hawaiian, Indonesian, Javanese, Kinyarwanda, Malagasy, Malay, Maori, Nyanja, Odia, Samoan, Sundanese, Swahili, Tatar, Turkmen, Uygher, Xhosa, and Zulu lol
In Swedish it means feed, in Tamil, Bangla, Gujarati, and Urdu it means mother, in Telugu it means word, in Welsh it means math, in Arabic it means when, in Czech it means mint, in Finnish it means rotten, in Japanese it means also, in Kannada it means vote, in Norwegian it means must take, and in Polish it just means mat.
lol
Portuguese - woods
Romanian - silk
And matahari may be sun in Indonesian but just mata apparently means eye. It also apparently means eyes/eye in Cebuano, Filipino, Hawaiian, Indonesian, Javanese, Kinyarwanda, Malagasy, Malay, Maori, Nyanja, Odia, Samoan, Sundanese, Swahili, Tatar, Turkmen, Uygher, Xhosa, and Zulu lol
In Swedish it means feed, in Tamil, Bangla, Gujarati, and Urdu it means mother, in Telugu it means word, in Welsh it means math, in Arabic it means when, in Czech it means mint, in Finnish it means rotten, in Japanese it means also, in Kannada it means vote, in Norwegian it means must take, and in Polish it just means mat.
lol
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I think “matahari” is literally “eye of the day” or “day eye” :)
So many meanings! Very much not a name. But I still think it sounds cool!
So many meanings! Very much not a name. But I still think it sounds cool!
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