A new law is passed stripping everyone of their first names and requiring them to choose another. You decide not to be a revolutionary.

What name will you choose for yourself?

O lala, I'm loving ze topic :D Umm, I love my name, won't change it for anything :p

Something maltese.. like Lieni. :rolleyes:

i like my name :D


might change to Amarant :cool:

Maybe to : Diana :rolleyes:

i love my name
my family loves my name (A)
everyone loves my name
mwah to my name :XD:

I won't change my name.

After my grandfather, Hamad.

Death Rose i agree im naming my daughter after Ur Name


Well for me i like the meaning of my name not they way its pronounced but uuumm i'd change it to

Shoug for some reason i like it strange but ya

I would become Bosworth Pennyweather the third, esquire.

Shoug for some reason i like it strange but ya

i feel special :p










i'd really like to change my name to Fiammetta :boo:

Moved from General Sabla

Might go for Stormy or Silent ( which is nice in Arabic :) I love it )

I'll change my name to Ali

^Ali baba or mohammed Ali? :rolleyes:

my name stays..i dont care if anyone puts a gun to my head and threatens me...wont change it!!!

^ no nooo , ali is niiiice ;) :P

I wont change my name, i like mine :)

just "Ali", that's wat i should've been named in the first place.

^first place? Oh? what happened?

I love my current name but If I was to change my name then here's what I might change it to:


- Sa7ar
- Samar
- Eman
- Dana
- Jumanna

I don't like weird names.

family feud over names is wat happend n den my uncle(mom's bro) went ahead n registered da present name i think, dad was away da time of my birth so i was named wat i am now.
Ali would've been wierd, cuz it doesnt rhyme wid Sameer (bro), hmm I'm happy nevertheless

^your name is nice and unique...:D

I would be between: Aisha and Zeenah

:love: Love those names.

LOL@ zeenah..lol.that name cracks me up!!!!!

I would be between: Aisha and Zeenah

:love: Love those names.

Beautiful! And they go from A to Z so you've got all your bases covered! :p

(And thanks for playing fair and not doing the "I love my name; I'd never change!" dance...)

Hmm...Maybe Celeborn...Or Elendil.
Or for an Arab name, Ashraf.

I wouldn't change mine =( . Ah well...I'd go for 'Sophie' or Sophia.

Threadlike:

I love the name Celeborn, though Celeborn himself seems a bit weak compared to his high-powered wife! :p

Make sure you pronounce it with a 'k' sound though: it's Keleborn, not Seleborn.

threadlike: those names dont even sound HUMAN :mmhmm: :XD:

I wouldn't change mine =( . Ah well...I'd go for 'Sophie' or Sophia.

A lovely name and it seems to suit you somehow...

It means "wisdom" and that fits in a rough-and-tumble way! :)

lol @ Jeff...Elendil it is then, 'man' enough :p
Celeborn means 'silver hair' I guess, right?

lol @ Jeff...Elendil it is then, 'man' enough :p
Celeborn means 'silver hair' I guess, right?

Yes, a true-hearted Man...Man in Tolkien's sense of the great race of mortal persons, not the Elder Race.

"Learn now the lore of Living Creatures!
First name the four, the Free Peoples:
Eldest of all, the elf-children;
Dwarf the delver, dark are his houses;
Ent the earthborn, old as mountains;
Man the mortal, master of horses."

I've always loved Men. My son always asks me which of the People I would want to be. I always disappoint him with the boring answer: I want to be of the Men.

But watch out the guys don't call you "Ellen"! :p

BTW, I haven't forgotten about Namarie. I've just gotten busy, Christmas came, and I lost my voice! :p But be patient...

i would change is to "Lestat" or "Vlad"
something Vampire-ish
xD

Probably Aya

mama shumba'ana :cute:

Hmmm I don't know....

Maybe to Laith! :p
Since I love that name! :D

Probably May (not may the month nor water :bored:)

A lovely name and it seems to suit you somehow...

It means "wisdom" and that fits in a rough-and-tumble way! :)

Jeff, now on to Arabic 1.2:

There are two sets of etymology for "Sophia". In English we know about the one you mention from the Greek word "sophis". Our sister "Sophis Catrina" knows that one too ;)

But in Arabic, it's different. There are two sounds in Arabic like "s"..one is pronounced just the same (the Arabic letter "seen"). But there is a "heavier" one which you will see members here often transliterate as 9 because it looks like the Arabic letter (9aad). Along with the "fa" and "ya" in Arabic it is the root for the word for purity. So "9afiya" in Arabic means pure.

I'm sure she's pure as well as wise ;)


Hmm...OK, sorry for the digression, time to play the game: Actually some people already thought I would change my name but I never have. But if I did, there are a couple of names I have already been called for fun. One is Ali, which I like because it is simple and begins with the "3ain" sound which I think makes it sound strong and emphatic. And also because it's the name of one of the greatest men of Islamic history. I was once re-named "Qasim" by someone, as a kind of version of my own name. It's quite cool, so that would be OK too. Or maybe "Ghabish", just because it's kind of funny!

I would loove to change my name to Dana..but if something weird came along, I would change it to that. ;p


Nice thread Jeff.

Jeff, now on to Arabic 1.2:

There are two sets of etymology for "Sophia". In English we know about the one you mention from the Greek word "sophis". Our sister "Sophis Catrina" knows that one too ;)

But in Arabic, it's different. There are two sounds in Arabic like "s"..one is pronounced just the same (the Arabic letter "seen"). But there is a "heavier" one which you will see members here often transliterate as 9 because it looks like the Arabic letter (9aad). Along with the "fa" and "ya" in Arabic it is the root for the word for purity. So "9afiya" in Arabic means pure.

I'm sure she's pure as well as wise ;)

!
Really? pure too? but what about Sophie? (9ofi) lol.

Pure and wise, they totally suit my current name. I've always wanted to have a baby girl (HAH!) and name her Sophie!

Jeff, now on to Arabic 1.2:

There are two sets of etymology for "Sophia". In English we know about the one you mention from the Greek word "sophis". Our sister "Sophis Catrina" knows that one too ;)

But in Arabic, it's different. There are two sounds in Arabic like "s"..one is pronounced just the same (the Arabic letter "seen"). But there is a "heavier" one which you will see members here often transliterate as 9 because it looks like the Arabic letter (9aad). Along with the "fa" and "ya" in Arabic it is the root for the word for purity. So "9afiya" in Arabic means pure.

I'm sure she's pure as well as wise ;)


Hmm...OK, sorry for the digression, time to play the game: Actually some people already thought I would change my name but I never have. But if I did, there are a couple of names I have already been called for fun. One is Ali, which I like because it is simple and begins with the "3ain" sound which I think makes it sound strong and emphatic. And also because it's the name of one of the greatest men of Islamic history. I was once re-named "Qasim" by someone, as a kind of version of my own name. It's quite cool, so that would be OK too. Or maybe "Ghabish", just because it's kind of funny!


Are you saying Sophia and Safiya are the same name? I took it that Obli was choosing the name Sophia. Which is Greek for wisdom.

I'm saying that from an Arabic speaker's point of view, Sophia is a neat anglicisation of 9afiya. And yes, we're agreed that sophis is Greek for wisdom. As in sophomore, sophistry and sophisticate! I don't know why Obli-Wan chose Sophia though.

And Obli, the etymology of "9oofi" was cover by, ironically, Sophis Catrina in Islamic Sabla "Sufism"!

Isn't language wonderful?

Speaking of wonderful langauge, why is a 9 written for an S? Or is it not an S?

Obli-wan?

Anyways, you're telling me that Sophie means 9oofi in Arabic which has to do with Islam? OK, I'll stick to the sound of the name and not the Arabic meaning :P

It's a nice name.

Speaking of wonderful langauge, why is a 9 written for an S? Or is it not an S?
In Arabic we have to S's. A heavy one which is a (9ad) and a light one which is (seen)

9ad as in...sun?
Seen as in summer.

Clear?

And yes, we're agreed that sophis is Greek for wisdom.

Not just sophis. Sophia.

'Hagia Sophia' is the (former) name of the (former) Patriarchal basilica in (former) Constantinople. It means 'Holy Wisdom'.

'Philosophy' is from 'philo sophia', 'love of wisdom'.

Hahaha fair enough, I just thought Jeff might be interested! But stop it with the Sufis now, you might confuse him!

Jeff, as explained above, "9" looks like an Arabic letter which is like a heavily pronounced "s". But as there is another letter that is pronounced exactly like an English "s", people like to put 9 to distinguish the two, because otherwise it might mean something completely different.

Also, there are two "t" sounds for instance, and so one is often transliterated as "6" because of the shape again...and there is a heavily aspirated "h" sound, which is shown as "7" sometimes...not to be confused with the throaty-sounding "'7" which is also often "kh" in transliteration. Now if we get on to "dh" and "th" and "d" sounds we could be here all day...and in Urdu about four of them are pronounced as "z"...

I wonder at what point you stopped reading :D


Anyway...names. My younger daugher is called Sophie, it's a nice name. And she's not a Sufi or an Arab or a Greek, sorry for the digression. ;)

I'd change mine to Fay.. but i'd keep Lala regardless :p loool

Hahaha fair enough, I just thought Jeff might be interested! But stop it with the Sufis now, you might confuse him!

Jeff, as explained above, "9" looks like an Arabic letter which is like a heavily pronounced "s". But as there is another letter that is pronounced exactly like an English "s", people like to put 9 to distinguish the two, because otherwise it might mean something completely different.

Also, there are two "t" sounds for instance, and so one is often transliterated as "6" because of the shape again...and there is a heavily aspirated "h" sound, which is shown as "7" sometimes...not to be confused with the throaty-sounding "'7" which is also often "kh" in transliteration. Now if we get on to "dh" and "th" and "d" sounds we could be here all day...and in Urdu about four of them are pronounced as "z"...

I wonder at what point you stopped reading :D


Anyway...names. My younger daugher is called Sophie, it's a nice name. And she's not a Sufi or an Arab or a Greek, sorry for the digression. ;)

No, I'm a sucker for an interesting long post! :p I read all the way through. I forgot to finish the other post because my philological side got excited by the Sophia/Safiya question...

But thanks for explaining twice! :p

Now will you please tell me what that 9 stands for? Is it some kind of 's'? ;)

^^ Ha ha ha v.funny, Jeff...we explained the 9 like 943859 times so far. Read :p

No, it's a mystical symbol for a no-go area. :)

Why do only Mexicans call themselves Jesus? Just a thought. I think it's cool.

I would choose Hugh J.

Minerva Sirius Albus Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.

Isn't he gay ?

Isn't he gay ?
yes and i like him. i'm a girl. gays are girls best boy mates.

Little ****

Hmmm ^ Little Nu+Nu

Why do you want to call yourself a little nu.nu, Tiq ?

ti3gib:

Got a crush on Cute_Ting? :p

I like my name.. but if i were to change it, i'd choose Emfarre7! :D.. its a bedwin name, which means someone who brings in happiness and joy.. BUt if i was to go pick up girls, i'd go with something like Alexander or Enrique

well as everyone said I LOVE MY NAME :/ :bored: anyway

but if i had a chance i wont change it and if my name didnt exiset i would think of

Shog ,Reem or hmm Ramlah :/

I love my name im named after 1 of the prophets (a.s) but id like the name B7r (ocean) but i wudnt allow anyone callin me ocean it has to be the pronounciation in arabic B7r. (^_^) also if i wanted to have an english name id wud want to be Ciya (its sound like seeya) a find it a beautiful name.

Why do you want to call yourself a little nu.nu, Tiq ?
ti3gib:

Got a crush on Cute_Ting?

I think it's about time everyone knows.

Little ****

Just checking if he really did this..

****

OMG!!! this is freakin hilarious!!! hahahahahahahahahahaha!! we can't say Nu Nu anymore?! ok, this is just so sad...seriously.

Mohamed :)

i love this name

^^^ nice Choice!

whats ur real name

Thanks

My official one is Adil :)

there's a british male Doctor married to an omani female Doctor in SQU

they decided to name thier daughter names that fits in both languages

they named them: Noora and Sofiya :cute:

i think they r really nice names ;)

I'll go for Paul
though i'm used to mine ^^

^ Paul SO DOES NOT SUIT YOU though..
I would name you Mike if I could :p

I don't know about me.. I've always like Sara and Lara.. :)

I'd go for Shahrazad or Kanz or Sophie! ;)

i donno i just love my current name :p

i donno i just love my current name :p

me too :dev: