name

PIE word
*h₁nómn̥

From Middle English name, nome, from Old English nama, noma, from Proto-West Germanic *namō, from Proto-Germanic *namô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥. Cognates include Saterland Frisian Noome, West Frisian namme, Dutch naam, German Name, Danish navn, Swedish namn, Latin nōmen (whence Spanish nombre), Russian имя (imja), Sanskrit नामन् (nāman). Possible cognates outside of Indo-European include Finnish nimi and Hungarian név. Doublet of nomen and noun.

• enPR: nām, IPA^(key): /neɪm/

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• Rhymes: -eɪm

name (plural names)

1. Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.

   Synonyms: proper name; see also Thesaurus:name

   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     That which we call a rose
     By any other name would smell as sweet.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 2:19:

     […] and whatsoeuer Adam called euery liuing creature, that was the name thereof.

   • 1904, L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz:

     So good a man as this must surely have a name.

   • 2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist:

     Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.

   I've never liked the name my parents gave me so I changed it at the age of twenty.

   What's your name?
   Puddintane. Ask me again and I'll tell you the same.

2. Reputation.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

     Good name in man and woman, dear my lord
     Is the immediate jewel of their souls.

   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.

   • 1952, Old Testament, Revised Standard Version, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 2 Samuel 8:13:

     And David won a name for himself.

3. An abusive or insulting epithet.

   Stop calling me names!

4. A person (or legal person).
   • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     They list with women each degenerate name.

   • p. 2002, second edition of, 2002, Graham Richards, Putting Psychology in its Place, →ISBN, page 287 [1]

     Later British psychologists interested in this topic include such major names as Cyril Burt, William McDougall, […] .

   • 2008 edition of, 1998, S. B. Budhiraja and M. B. Athreya, Cases in Strategic Management, →ISBN page 79 [2]:

     Would it be able to fight the competition from ITC Agro Tech and Liptons who were ready and able to commit large resources? With such big names as competitors, would this business be viable for Marico?

   • 2009 third edition of, 1998, Martin Mowforth and Ian Munt, Tourism and Sustainability, →ISBN, page 29 [3]:

     International non-governmental organisations (INGOs), including such household names as Amnesty International, Greenpeace and […] .

5. Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 7, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name, came every day to pay their feigned civilities.

6. Authority; behalf.

   Halt in the name of the law!

   • 1881, George Barnett Smith, chapter XVI, in The Life and Speeches of the Right Hon. John Bright, M.P.‎^[4], volume II, London: Hodder and Stroughton, page 541:

     We may be quite sure, therefore, that in some shape, if we, the people of England, tolerate the bloody and sanguinary crimes which are committed in our name, if they are so committed, and we do not remonstrate and condemn, we shall have no acquittal at that tribunal by which the actions, not of individuals only, but of nations and peoples, are finally judged.

7. (computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
8. (UK, finance) An investor in Lloyd's of London bearing unlimited liability.

• → Sranan Tongo: nen
• → Japanese: ネーム (nēmu)

• name on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Middle English namen, from Old English namian (“to name, mention”) and ġenamian (“to name, call, appoint”), from Proto-West Germanic *namōn (“to name”). Compare also Old English nemnan, nemnian (“to name, give a name to a person or thing”).

name (third-person singular simple present names, present participle naming, simple past and past participle named)

1. (ditransitive) To give a name to.

   One visitor named Hou Yugang said he was not too concerned about climate change and Baishui’s melting.

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   • 1904, L. Frank Baum, The Land of Oz:

     I will name the fellow 'Jack Pumpkinhead!'

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.

2. (transitive) To mention, specify.

   He named his demands.

   You name it!

   You have to pot the ball in the pocket you've named.

   • 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America‎^[5], archived from the original on 7 February 2019:

     The three countries were named in a new study from the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO.

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3. (transitive) To identify as relevant or important

   naming the problem

4. (transitive) To publicly implicate by name.

   The painter was named as an accomplice.

5. (transitive, of a person) To disclose the name of.

   Police are not naming the suspect as he is a minor.

6. (transitive) To designate for a role.

   Synonym: nominate

   My neighbor was named to the steering committee.

7. (transitive, Westminster system politics) To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.
   • 2013 July 10, John (Speaker of the House of Commons) Bercow, (Please provide the book title or journal name), to MP Nigel Dodds:

     I must warn the Right Honourable gentleman, that if he persists in his refusal to comply with my order to withdraw [the words "deliberately deceptive"], I shall be compelled to name him.

• (give a name to): bename, designate, dub; see also Thesaurus:denominate
• (specify): nominate; see also Thesaurus:specify

Borrowed from Spanish ñame, substituting n for the unfamiliar Spanish letter ñ. Doublet of yam.

• ñame, namé

name (plural names)

1. Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.

• cush-cush
• greater yam

• -mane, -nema, Amen, Eman, Enma, MEAN, MENA, Mena, NEMA, NMEA, amen, mane, mean, mnae, neam

name

1. plural of naam

Borrowed from Sanskrit नामन् (nāman). Cognate with English name.

name

1. name

• "Besemah" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

From Middle High German name, from Old High German namo.

name ?

1. (Tredici Comuni) name

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

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name

1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of nemen

name

1. (archaic) dative singular of naam

• amen, mane

name

1. grass

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

name

1. Rōmaji transcription of なめ

name m

1. locative singular of namas
2. vocative singular of namas

From Old Dutch namo.

nāme m or f

1. name
2. fame, reputation

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• nāmen

• Dutch: naam
• Limburgish: naam, naom

From Old Dutch *nāma, from Proto-Germanic *nēmō.

nâme f

1. taking
2. receiving

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• nēmen

• Dutch: name (mostly in compounds)

• “name”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “name (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “name (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

• nome

From Old English nama, from Proto-West Germanic *namō, from Proto-Germanic *namô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaːm(ə)/

name (plural names or namen)

1. name

• surname

• English: name
  • → Sranan Tongo: nen
  • → Japanese: ネーム
• Geordie English: nyem
• Scots: name, naim, nem, nome
• Yola: naame, naume, name

• “nāme, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• nam

Inherited from Old High German namo, from Proto-West Germanic *namō.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈnamə/

name m

1. name
2. (grammar) noun
   • 14th century, Heinrich von Mügeln. Normalised spellings: 1867, Karl Julis Schröer, Die Dichtungen Heinrichs von Mügeln (Mogelîn) nach den Handschriften besprochen, Wien, p. 476:

     Nam, vornam, wort, darnâch
     zûwort, teilfanc, zûfûg ich sach,
     vorsatz, înworf under irem dach
     gemunzet und geformet stân.

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• Alemannic German: Naame

  Italian Walser: namä, noame, nomu, nàmund

• Bavarian: Nama, Nam, Nåm

  Cimbrian: nåm, name, naamo

  Mòcheno: nu'm

  Udinese: nome, nòmm, nome, nomat

• German: Name, Namen
• Luxembourgish: Numm
• Rhine Franconian:

  Pennsylvania German: Naame

• Yiddish: נאָמען (nomen)

Borrowed from Persian نامه (nâme).

• IPA^(key): /nɑːˈmɛ/

name f

1. letter (a document)

name

1. singular optative active of namati (“to bend”)

name

1. dative singular of nam

name

1. Alternative form of naame
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 6-7:

     wi vengem o' core t'gie oure zense o' ye gradès whilke be ee-dighte wi yer name;

     to pour forth from the strength of our hearts, our sense of the qualities which characterise your name,

   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 8-9:

     wee hert ee zough o'ye colure o' pace na name o' Mulgrave.

     we heard the distant sound of the wings of the dove of peace, in the word Mulgrave.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114

From Proto-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

• IPA^(key): /nɔːme/

name (nam)

1. name
2. reputation