Midan Shady Sphere · Knock With Your Name
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Where we meet with culture, questions, and craft.
Knock with your name — from any language. Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Russian, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Irish, Haitian Creole, Jamaican Patois, and more. If we know it, you get a plain-English meaning, where it comes from, and the name in its own script when there is a real one. Tap Hear it to hear it said. We only write what is well known. If we don’t have it, we say so.
Guests can ask about the names set out front. The rest of the list is inside the club.
Hebrew, in Arabic
In its own script
Arabic
آدم
Hebrew
אָדָם
Meaning
A human being, from the ground.
Origin
Hebrew Adam is the human, related to adamah, the earth or ground. Arabic writes it Adam (آدم). The meaning is the person made from soil, not a costume of “the first man” we perform at the door.
A human, from the ground. That is enough of a greeting.