Potamiana, Butamina

• Origin: Egyptian/Coptic ⲡⲟⲧⲁⲙⲓⲁⲛⲁ
• Gender: feminine
• Meaning: “from the lake; from the sea.”

Potamiana is a latinized form of the Demotic Tꜣ-pꜣ-ym, ultimately derived from the Coptic Tapiam ⲧⲁⲡⲓⲁⲙ meaning “of the sea; of the lake.” It later evolved into the Greek Taphomis Ταπιωμις, and further hellenized as Potamiana.

Butamina and Butamiyana بُوطَامِيانَا‎ are it’s Arabized forms.

The name was borne by a 3rd-century AD Egyptian saint who was martyred for her Christianity.

Her feast day is June 28th.

Other forms of the name include:

• Butamina بوتاميانا, Butamiyana بوتاميانا (Arabic)
• Pwtmyana ܦܘܛܡܝܢܐ (Aramaic)
• Potamiana Ποταμιανή Потамиана (Croatian, Czech, English, German, Greek, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish)
• Potamienne, Potamène, Potamine (French)
• Potamiaina, Potamiöna (German)
• Potamaena, Potamiaena (Late Latin)
• Potamiena (Italian, Spanish)
• Potamina (Italian)
• Potamijana Потамијана (Serbian)
• Potamiyana Потаміана (Ukrainian)

Sources

• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E2%B2%A1%E2%B2%9F%E2%B2%A7%E2%B2%81%E2%B2%99%E2%B2%93%E2%B2%81%E2%B2%9B%E2%B2%81
• https://www.trismegistos.org/nam/detail.php?nam_id=6077&ref_per_namvar=namvar
• https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/91468
• https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/lives-of-the-saints/volume-vi-june/ss-potamiana-or-potamiena-and-basilides-martyrs/
• http://www.copticplace.com/Saints_E/Lives_of_Saints/Potamaena.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilides_and_Potamiana#Potamiana
• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potamiaina