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Josef Budko's woodcut depiction of the shiksa in Hayim Nahman Bialik's Behind the Fence. Shiksa (Yiddish: שיקסע, romanized: shikse) is an often disparaging [1] term for a gentile [a] woman or girl.
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).
Shikha may refer to: Shikha (hairstyle), a traditional Hindu hairstyle; Shikha, Nepal; Shikha (actress), South Indian film actress; Shikha Joshi, Indian actress; Shikha Kumar, Registered business based in Canberra, Australia. She is Owner and founder of Shikha Beauty Studio; Shikha Makan, Indian ad-film director, filmmaker and screenwriter.
Featherstonhaugh, also spelt Fetherstonhaugh and Featherstonehaugh, is an old English surname that was originally Fetherston.The name comes from Featherstone Castle in Northumberland, from the Old English feðere, 'feather', stān, 'stone', and healh, 'corner'.
Dikshit (ISO: Dīkṣit, pronounced [d̪iːkhɪt̪]; also spelled as Dixit or Dikshitar) is traditionally a Hindu family name. Origin The word is an adjectival form of the Sanskrit word diksha , meaning provider of knowledge.
Xia is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written 夏 in Chinese character.It is romanized Hsia in Wade–Giles, and Ha in Cantonese.Xia is the 154th surname in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames. [1]
As an English surname, Chow originated as a nickname, from Middle English chowe, meaning "chough" or "jackdaw". [1]As a Chinese surname, Chow may be a romanisation of the pronunciations in different varieties of Chinese of the following surnames, listed based on their Pinyin romanisation (which reflects the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation):
Xie (; simplified Chinese: 谢; traditional Chinese: 謝; pinyin: Xiè; Wade–Giles: Hsieh 4) is a Chinese-language surname. lt is usually romanized as "Hsieh" in Taiwan.. It is estimated that there are more than ten million people with this surname, most of whom live in Taiwan, Southern China, South East Asia, America, Europe and Afri