Gender: Masculine
Origin: Polish
Meaning: “jealous for fame.”
(zah-VEE-shah)
The name is derived from an ancient Slavic element that would roughly translate to mean “jealous for fame.”
The designated name-day is August 17.
Other forms include the Czech Záviš and the German form is Zawisch.
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One of those interesting Polish masculine names that end in the letter A. Very rare.
If wikipedia is to believed the Czech form is Záviš and the German is Zawisch.
I took them from the the Czech and German pages of this Polish language entry:
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zawisza_z_Falken%C5%A1tejnu
Thanks Magdalena! I have updated the entry 🙂