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Pauline is a female given name. It was originally the French form of Paulina, a female version of Paulinus, a variant of Paulus meaning the little, hence the younger.. The corresponding form for the name in Italian is Paolina (Paula corresponds to Paola).
Paulina, the name of several Roman women related to Emperor Hadrian; Lollia Paulina (15–49), third wife of Emperor Caligula; Caecilia Paulina (died 236), wife of Emperor Maximinus Thrax, posthumously deified as diva Paulina; Aurelia Paulina, daughter of the Emperor Carus; Aurelia Paulina, a Roman noblewoman from Anatolia
Some common Christian names are: Arabic versions of Christian names (e.g. saints' names: Buṭrus for Peter, Boulos for Paul). Names of Greek, Armenian, and Aramaic origin, which are also used by ethnically "non-Arab" Christians such as Armenians, Assyrians, Copts and Syriac Christians. Use of European names, especially French, and English.
The Arabic alphabet, [a] or the Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written from right-to-left in a cursive style, and includes 28 letters, [b] of which most have contextual letterforms. Unlike the modern Latin alphabet, the script has no concept of letter case.
But the absence of attestation in Arabic in any earlier century must make Arabic origin questionable. [53] guitar The name is ultimately descended from ancient Greek kithara, which was a plucked string musical instrument of the lyre type. Classical and medieval Latin had cithara as a lyre and more loosely a plucked string instrument. So did the ...
Nabataeo-Arabic: Starting in the third century, and until the mid-fifth century, the Nabataean Aramaic alphabet evolved into what is known as Nabataeo-Arabic. This alphabet has received this name because it contains a mixture of features from the prior Aramaic script, in addition to a number of notable features from the later fully developed ...
Word/name: Latin: Meaning: ... Other names; Related names: Paulina, Pavla, Pola, Polina: An engraving of Saint Paula. Paula is a common female given name (from Latin ...
The medieval Latin name antimonium is of obscure origin. Possibly it is a Latinized form of some Arabic name but no clear precedent in Arabic has been found. In the Western European languages other than Latin, in the late medieval period, antimony is a "bookish" word arriving from the Latin. It is found in medical books and alchemy books. [90]