Ari is a given name in many languages and cultures, for both men and women. It also may be a nickname for a wide variety of unrelated names.

Etymology

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Albanian

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In the Albanian language, "Ari" means "gold" and is used as a male name .[1]

Badaga

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Ari in the Badaga language, "Ari" ("A:ri") has a literal meaning of "sun-like" and is used as a male name, sometimes changed to "Harry" in the case of converts to Christianity.[2]

Finnic languages

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Ari is thought to be a Finnic form of Adrian.[3]

Greek

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Ari or Aris is a common shortened version of the Greek names Aristotle, Ariadne, Ariana, Arietta, Aristides, Aristarchus, Aristomenes, Aristobulos, Aristoxenos, Aristos, Aristophanes, Aristea, Aristotelis, and others, the majority of which are compounds of the adjectival superlative áristos, "best" or "superior". They are also modern Greek transliterations for Ares, the god of war and the name for the planet Mars. The archaic Greek prefix ari-[4] (e.g. in Ariadne, Arimnestus etc.) or eri-, a cognate of áristos, means "very" or "verily".

Hebrew

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Ari is a common masculine given name in Hebrew (אריה/ארי). It means lion.[5]

Scandinavian

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Ari is a given name in Old Norse, Icelandic, Faroese, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish and means eagle or is the pet form of the names starting with Arn- or Old Norse ari "eagle".[6]

Notable people named Ari

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Fictional characters

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Mountain, Appelation. "Ari: Baby Name of the Day". Appellation Mountain. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
  2. ^ Hockings, Paul; Pilot-Raichoor, Christiane (1992), Werner Winter; Richard A. Rhodes (eds.), A Badaga-English Dictionary, Trends in Linguistics: Documentation, vol. 8, Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, p. 47, ISBN 978-3-11-012677-8, OCLC 25963917, retrieved 13 Dec 2011
  3. ^ Balodis, Pauls (August 2009). "Personal Names of Livonian Origin in Latvia: Past and Present" (PDF). In Wolfgang Ahrens; Sheila Embleton; André Lapierre (eds.). Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences. 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences. Toronto, Canada: York University. pp. 105–116. ISBN 978-1-55014-521-2. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
  4. ^ Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert. "A Greek-English Lexicon, ἀρι^-". Perseus Digital Library.
  5. ^ Stewart, Julia (1993), "A", African Names (GoogleBook), New York, New York: Kensington Publishing, p. 14, ISBN 0-8065-1386-1, OCLC 59614650, retrieved 13 Dec 2011
  6. ^ Nordic Names : "Ari" [1]