Amanda
English
editEtymology
editDerived from Latin Amanda, feminine form of the saint's name Amandus, from amandus, future passive participle of amāre (“to love”): thus meaning "who/which is to be loved". Taken into regular use as an English given name from 18th-century literature.
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editAmanda
- A female given name from Latin.
- 1767 Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy: Book VII, Chapter 31:
- O there is a sweet era in the life of man, when ( the brain being tender and fibrillous, and more like pap than anything else ) - a story read of two fond lovers, separated from each other by cruel parents, and by still more cruel destiny -
- Amandus - He
- Amanda - She -
- each ignorant of the other's course.
- O there is a sweet era in the life of man, when ( the brain being tender and fibrillous, and more like pap than anything else ) - a story read of two fond lovers, separated from each other by cruel parents, and by still more cruel destiny -
- 1994, Caroline Graham, Written in Blood, page 35:
- Sue always thought of her offspring as Amanda. Allowing her to name the child had been one of the last indulgences that Brian had seen fit to bestow. Even then he had not the generosity to conceal his displeasure at her choice. Pretentious. Snobbish. Affected. The baby had been 'Mandy' from the day of her birth and, once Brian had really got the hang of high-rise/comprehensive linguistic mores, 'Mand'.
- 1767 Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy: Book VII, Chapter 31:
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editDanish
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editAmanda c
- a female given name
Finnish
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editAmanda
- a female given name
- 1990, Tuula-Liina Varis, Vauvat yhdentyvät Eurooppaan, Suomen Kuvalehti, 30 (27.7.)1990:
- Koreita nimiä ku köyhän kakaroilla, sanottiin ennen. Köyhällä ei muuta koreata ollut lapselleen antaa. Itsellenikin on läheinen lounaissuomalainen maatyöläisen pesue, jossa suomalaisen nimen peräkaneettina vilisi Wilhelmiinaa, Aleksandraa ja Amandaa, jopa Dagmar. Suuresti epäilen, osasiko kumpikaan vanhemmista sitä lausua.
- Such rich names for such poor children, as we used to say. The only rich thing a poor person had was the name they could give ot their child. I knew very well a southwestern family living off the land, where their Finnish names were followed by Wilhelmina, Aleksandra, Amanda, even Dagmar. I have my doubts about whether either of the parents even could pronounce those correctly.
- 1996, Raija Siekkinen, Kaunis nimi, Otava, →ISBN, pages 80–81:
- Mutta hän katseli tyttöä: kummallinen nimi, Siiri, vaikka vanhat nimet olivatkin muotia nykyisin, ja pienet Annit ja Amandat tappelivat muovileluista hiekkalaatikoissaan; mutta siihen sukupolveen tämä tyttö ei kuulunut.
- But she looked at the girl: odd name, Siiri, even if old names are in these days, and small Annis and Amandas fought over the plastic toys in their sandboxes; but this girl was not of that generation.
Declension
editInflection of Amanda (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Amanda | Amandat | |
genitive | Amandan | Amandojen | |
partitive | Amandaa | Amandoja | |
illative | Amandaan | Amandoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Amanda | Amandat | |
accusative | nom. | Amanda | Amandat |
gen. | Amandan | ||
genitive | Amandan | Amandojen Amandain rare | |
partitive | Amandaa | Amandoja | |
inessive | Amandassa | Amandoissa | |
elative | Amandasta | Amandoista | |
illative | Amandaan | Amandoihin | |
adessive | Amandalla | Amandoilla | |
ablative | Amandalta | Amandoilta | |
allative | Amandalle | Amandoille | |
essive | Amandana | Amandoina | |
translative | Amandaksi | Amandoiksi | |
abessive | Amandatta | Amandoitta | |
instructive | — | Amandoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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editStatistics
edit- Amanda is the 129th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 5,493 female individuals (and as a middle name to 17,985 more, making it more common as a middle name), and also belongs as a middle name to 7 male individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
French
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editAmanda f
- a female given name
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editGerman
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editAudio: (file)
Proper noun
editAmanda f
- a female given name
Indonesian
editSee various people named “Amanda” on the Indonesian Wikipedia: [1]
Etymology 1
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editAmanda
- a female given name from English
Etymology 2
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editAmanda
- a female given name from Spanish
Italian
editEtymology
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editAmanda f
- a female given name
Latvian
editEtymology
editDerived from Latin Amanda. First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1893.
Proper noun
editAmanda f
- a female given name
References
editNorwegian Bokmål
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editAmanda m or f
- a female given name
Norwegian Nynorsk
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editAmanda f
- a female given name
Polish
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin Amanda.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editAmanda f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Amanda
Declension
editFurther reading
edit- Amanda in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
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Proper noun
editAmanda f (plural Amandas)
- a female given name, equivalent to English Amanda
Serbo-Croatian
editProper noun
editAmanda f (Cyrillic spelling Аманда)
- a female given name
Declension
editFurther reading
edit- “Amanda”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2024
Spanish
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editAmanda f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Amande
Swedish
editEtymology
editDerived from Latin Amanda. First recorded in Sweden in 1735.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editAmanda c (genitive Amandas)
- a female given name
References
edit- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- [3] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 33 296 females with the given name Amanda living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
Tagalog
editSee various people named “Amanda” on the Tagalog Wikipedia: [4]
Etymology
editPronunciation
edit- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔaˈmanda/ [ʔɐˈman̪.d̪ɐ]
- Rhymes: -anda
- Syllabification: A‧man‧da
Proper noun
editAmanda (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜋᜈ᜔ᜇ)
- a female given name from English
- English terms derived from Latin
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- Rhymes:English/ændə
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- Finnish terms derived from Latin
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- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑmɑndɑ
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- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Latin
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- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Latin
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- Polish terms borrowed from Latin
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- Rhymes:Polish/anda
- Rhymes:Polish/anda/3 syllables
- Polish lemmas
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- Portuguese 3-syllable words
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- Spanish terms borrowed from Latin
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- Rhymes:Spanish/anda
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- Spanish lemmas
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- Swedish terms derived from Latin
- Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Swedish given names
- Swedish female given names
- Tagalog terms borrowed from English
- Tagalog terms derived from English
- Tagalog 3-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/anda
- Rhymes:Tagalog/anda/3 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
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- Tagalog proper nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- Tagalog given names
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- Tagalog female given names from English