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Daniel ( Hebrew: דָּנִיֵּאל) is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge" [ 8][ 9] and derives from two early biblical figures, primary among them Daniel from the Book of Daniel. It is a common given name for males and also used as a surname, regularly the basis for various derived given names ...
Daniel (Dn'il, or Danel) is also the name of a figure in the Aqhat legend from Ugarit. [ 4] (. Ugarit was a Canaanite city destroyed around 1200 BCE – the tablet containing the story is dated c. 1360 BCE.) [ 11] This legendary Daniel is known for his righteousness and wisdom and a follower of the god El (hence his name), who made the god’s ...
Daniel commonly refers to: Daniel (given name), a masculine given name and a surname. List of people named Daniel. List of people with surname Daniel. Daniel (biblical figure) Book of Daniel, a 2nd-century BCE biblical apocalypse, "an account of the activities and visions of Daniel". Daniel may also refer to:
Dann, another variant spelling of which is Dane, is a toponymic surname which originates from the Middle English dene and Old English denu, "valley". [ 3] The Hebrew surname Dan ( Hebrew: דן) is a biblical name which refers to the tribe of Dan. As a given name it first appears in Genesis 30.
Daniel (Arabic: دانيال, Dānyāl) is usually considered by Muslims in general to have been a prophet and according to Shia Muslim hadith he was a prophet. Although he is not mentioned in the Qur'an, [1] nor in hadith of Sunni Islam, Sunni Muslim reports of him are taken from Isra'iliyyat, which bear his name and which refer to his time spent in the den of the lions. [2]
The name is used in Persian for both female and male sexes. It may also come from "Dane" (from Denmark), the meaning of the common surname. It is also occasionally regarded as a feminine version of Daniel or a short version of feminine names such as Bogdana or Yordana. In Hebrew, the name Dana means "arbiter" or "God is my judge".
Meaning. Strong, firm, enduring, impetuous. Ethan is a male given name of Hebrew origin ( איתן Eytan ) that means "firm, enduring, strong and long-lived". The name Ethan appears eight times in the Hebrew Bible (1 Kings 4:31, Ps. 89 title, 1 Chr. 2:6 and 2:8, 1 Chr. 6:42 and 6:44, and 1 Chr. 15:17 and 15:19). See Ethan (biblical figure) .
The name Rodrigo is the Spanish form of the German name Roderich, meaning "rich in fame", from the Gothic elements "hrod" (fame or glory) and "ric" (rich). It was the name of Roderic, the last Visigothic King before the Muslim conquest, and the subject of many legends. The surname Rodríguez could have originated in the 9th century when ...