Midan Shady Sphere · Knock With Your Name
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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
Also Nuh
In its own script
Arabic
نوح
Hebrew
נֹחַ
Meaning
Rest.
Origin
Hebrew Noach, traditionally from nuach, to rest. Arabic writes the same figure as Nuh (نوح). The “rest” gloss is the traditional one.
Rest, in the old story. Nuh, when the Arabic is spoken.