- Origin: Faroese
- Meaning: “flake.”
- Gender: Female
From the Faroese word for “flake,” referring to a snowflake.
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Masauna
- Origin: Greenlandic
- Meaning: “wet snow.”
- Gender: Male
The name comes from the Greenlandic masaut (wet snow), a long with the suffix – na on the end.
Other forms include: Masaatsiaq and Masaitsiaq.
Feminine forms are Masaana, Masaani, Masâne, Masáuna and Masaune.
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Tuyết
- Origin: Vietnamese 雪
- Meaning: “snow.”
- Gender: Female
- Pron: (TWEEYT; TWEEYK)
From the Sino-Vietnamese 雪 (tuyết), meaning, “snow.”
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Luay, Luai
- Origin: Arabic لؤيّ
- Meaning: “wild ox; protector.”
- Gender: Male
- (LOO-iey)
The name is derived from the Arabic لأًى (laʾan) “wild ox,” which can also have the euphemism of a shield or protector. Interestingly enough, it may share the same etymological root as the Hebrew female name, Leah.
The name is borne by Lu’ayy ibn Ghalib (3rd-century C.E.) who was the ancestor of the Islamic prophet Muhammed.
Other forms of the name include:
- Luaj (Albanian/Bosnian)
- Lüey (Azeri/Turkish)
- Louay (Maghrebi Arabic)
- Louie (Maghrebi Arabic)
- Loay لؤی (Urdu)
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Taub
- Origin: Hmong
- Meaning: “pumpkin; gourd.”
- Gender: Female
- IPA(key): /tau̯˥/
The name comes directly from the Hmong word for a pumpkin or gourd.
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Matipa
- Origin: Shona
- Meaning: “you have given us.”
- Gender: Unisex
Derived from the Shona makatipa, meaning, “you have given us.”
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Mairen
- Origin: Manipuri (Meitei) ꯃꯥꯏꯔꯦꯟ
- Meaning: “pumpkin.”
- Variant transcription: Mairel
- Gender: Unisex
The name comes directly from the Manipuri word ꯃꯥꯏꯔꯦꯟ (mairen), meaning “pumpkin.”
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Aputsiaq
- Origin: Greenlandic
- Meaning: “snowflake; ice crystal.”
- Gender: Unisex, mostly male
The name comes from the Greenlandic word for snowflake or ice crystal.
An older form is Aputsiak.
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Miyanza
- Origin: Mordvin
- Meaning: “beaver.”
- Gender: Female
The name is derived from the Mordvin word mijal, meaning, “beaver.”
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Munashe
- Origin: Shona
- Meaning: “the Lord is with us; the Lord is within us.”
- Gender: Unisex
- Pron: moo-NAH-sheh
A Shona theophoric unisex name, it is from a phrase mu ne ishe (the Lord is with us or the Lord is within us).
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