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BORR
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : topographic name from Old English (ge)fyrhþe ‘woodland’ or ‘scrubland on the edge of a forest’.Scottish : habitational name from Firth in Orkney.Welsh : topographic name from Welsh ffrith, ffridd ‘barren land’, ‘mountain pasture’ (a borrowing of the Old English word mentioned in 1).
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English (mainly Yorkshire)
English (mainly Yorkshire) : from a Norman personal name, Tancard, composed of the Germanic words þank ‘thought’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.English (mainly Yorkshire) : metonymic occupational name for a maker of barrels and drinking vessels, or a nickname for a hardened drinker, from Middle English tankard ‘tub’, ‘cup’ (apparently a borrowing from Middle Dutch).
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : variant spelling of Fallis.Spanish : probably nickname from the plural of Falla.Jewish (Sephardic) : borrowing of the Spanish surname.
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English
English : variant of Burrell.Catalan : nickname from borrell ‘red-haired’.
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English
English : variant of Guiler.German : variant of Gille 2.German : habitational name for someone from Gill near Neuss, in the Rhineland.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish male personal name Hiller, a variant of Hillel. The initial G is due to Russian influence, since Russian has no h and alters h to g in borrowed words.
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English
English : variant of Burrows.Possibly an altered form of German Börries or Borr(i)es (see Burress).
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English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : habitational name from a place near Warrington, which is of uncertain etymology. There was formerly an ancient burial mound there and Ekwall has speculated that the name is a shortened form of a British name composed of the elements crÅ«c ‘mound’ + a personal name cognate with Welsh Einion (see Eynon).Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac CoinÃn ‘son of CoinÃn’, a byname based on a diminutive of cano ‘wolf’, also Anglicized as Cunneen. The similarity to coinÃn ‘rabbit’, a later borrowing, has also caused it to be ‘translated’ as rabbit.
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Irish
Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gadhra
‘descendant of Gadhra’ (see O’Gara). See also McGeary.English : from a personal name derived from Germanic
gÄ“r, gÄr ‘spear’, a short form of any of various
compound names with this as a first element (see, for example
Garrett).English : nickname for a wayward or capricious
person, from Middle English ge(a)ry ‘fickle’, ‘changeable’,
‘passionate’ (a derivative of gere ‘fit of passion’, apparently
a Scandinavian borrowing).Possibly an altered spelling of
German Gehring or Gehrig.Most present-day Irish bearers of the name Geary and its variants
and derivatives are descended from a single 10th-century ancestor, a
nephew of Eadhra, who founded the family
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English
English : variant of Burrows.Possibly an altered form of German Börries or Borr(i)es (see Burress).
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English, German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
English, German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for an otter hunter, or nickname for someone supposedly resembling an otter, from Middle English, Middle High German oter, Middle Dutch otter, German Otter ‘otter’. The Jewish surname can be ornamental.English : from the late Old English personal name Ohthere, a borrowing of Old Norse Óttar, composed of the elements ótti ‘fear’, ‘dread’ + herr ‘army’. In Scotland the Old Norse name is the source.French : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements aud, od ‘wealth’ + hari, heri ‘army’.
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from any of various places in northern France called Rivières, from the plural form of Old French rivière ‘river’ (originally meaning ‘riverbank’, from Latin riparia). The absence of English forms without the final -s makes it unlikely that it is ever from the borrowed Middle English vocabulary word river, but the French and other Romance cognates do normally have this sense.Common Americanized form of French Larivière. ire.
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English
English : from the Norman personal name Godefrei, Godefroi(s), composed of the Germanic elements god, got ‘god’ + frid(u), fred ‘peace’. See also Jeffrey.Americanized form of Irish Mac Gothraidh or Ó Gothraidh, patronymics from the Irish equivalent of Godfrey (see 1 above), borrowed from the Vikings.Americanized form of the French surname Godefroi, of the same origin as 1.An Irish family of the name Godfrey originated in Romney, Kent. The first of them to settle in Ireland was Colonel John Godfrey, who was rewarded with lands in Kerry for his services in the 1641 rebellion.
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English
English : metronymic from a form of the female personal name Margaret, via Late Latin Margarita from Greek margaritēs ‘pearl’. This was borne by several early Christian saints, and became a popular female personal name throughout Europe. The vocabulary word was borrowed into Latin and Greek from a Semitic source, and is probably ultimately from Persian morvarid ‘pearl’.
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English
English : from Old Norse drengr ‘young man’, but with more than one possible interpretation. It may reflect the personal name (originally a byname) of this form, which had some currency in the most Scandinavian-influenced areas of medieval England. Alternatively it may reflect the Middle English borrowing of the vocabulary word in the sense ‘servant’, later a technical term of the feudal system of Northumbria for a free tenant who held land by military and agricultural service, sometimes paying rent as well or in commutation.
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : habitational name (de Brionne) from either of two places called Brionne in northern France (in Eure and Creuse).Irish and English : from the Celtic personal name Brian (see O’Brien). Breton bearers of this name were among the Normans who invaded England in 1066, and they went on to invade and settle in Ireland in the 12th century, where the name mingled with the native Irish name Brian. This native Irish name had also been borrowed by Vikings, who introduced it independently into northwestern England before the Norman Conquest.
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English (Midlands)
English (Midlands) : nickname for a thin person, from Middle English twigge ‘twig’, ‘shoot’. Since the word occurs only late in the Old English period and was initially confined to northern dialects, it may be a borrowing from Old Norse.
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English and German
English and German : from Middle Low German stump ‘tree stump’ (borrowed into Middle English), hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a conspicuous tree stump, or a nickname for a short, stout man.German (mainly northern and central) : variant of Stumm.
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Indian (Gujarat and Bombay city)
Indian (Gujarat and Bombay city) : Hindu (Vania) and Parsi name from Gujarati sÉ™raf ‘banker’, ‘money-changer’, from Arabic Ì£sarrÄf. There has probably been some confusion with Arabic sharÄ«f ‘noble’ and sharÄfa ‘nobility’, which have also been borrowed into Hindi and other modern Indian languages. Shroff is used as a vocabulary word in Indian English to denote a banker or money changer.English : although this is for the most part an Indian name (see 1 above), it was already well established in England in the 19th century (see below) and may also be of English origin. If it is not Indian, the etymology is unknown.
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Southern Italian
Southern Italian : nickname for a fierce or brave warrior, from Latin leo ‘lion’.Italian : from a short form of the personal name Pantaleo.Jewish : from the personal name Leo (from Latin leo ‘lion’), borrowed from Christians as an equivalent of Hebrew Yehuda (see Leib 3).English : from the Old French personal name Leon ‘lion’ (see Lyon 2).Spanish : variant or derivative of the personal name Leon.Dutch : from Latin leo ‘lion’, applied either a nickname for a strong or fearless man or a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a lion; or alternatively from a personal name of the same derivation.German and Hungarian (Leó) : Latinized form of Löwe (see Loewe).
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English
English : possibly from Middle English clamp ‘clamp’, ‘brace’, ‘iron band’ (a borrowing from Middle Dutch, first recorded in the early 14th century). This may have been a metonymic occupational name for a smith who specialized in making clamps.
BORR
BORR
Boy/Male
Indian
Ways, Paths, Pieces, Parts
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Submission to Allah's will
Biblical
strong or powerful savior; stone of redemption
Boy/Male
Bengali, Indian, Kannada, Tamil
Creative; Novelty
Girl/Female
Muslim
Spoiled one.
Male
Turkish
Turkish name SONER means "last man."
Male
English
Variant spelling of English unisex Devon, DEVAN means "worshiper of the god Dumnonos."Â
Boy/Male
British, English, Italian, Latin
Wealthy Defender; Guardian of Prosperity
Boy/Male
Indian, Rajasthani, Sikh
Victorious Warrior
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English
English : variant spelling of Hulbert.
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BORR
BORR
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BORR
a.
Alt. of Borraginaceous
v. t.
To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow.
n.
Green maize and beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians.
imp. & p. p.
of Borrow
a.
Robbed; borrowed.
n.
A seashore shrub (Borrichia arborescens) of the West Indies.
n.
One who borrows.
n.
One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
v. t.
The premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Borrow
n.
A gay, lively dance for one couple, -- said to have been borrowed from Provence in France.
a.
Not borrowed; being one's own; native; original.
n.
That which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan.
n.
The act of borrowing.
v. t.
To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars.
v. t.
To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another.
v. t.
Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money.
v. i.
To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank.
n.
A game at cards, borrowed from the Spaniards, and usually played by three persons.