Midan Shady Sphere · Knock With Your Name
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A square worth showing up for
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.
Greek
Also Sophia
In its own script
Greek
Σοφία
Russian
Софья
Meaning
Wisdom.
Origin
Greek sophia, wisdom. English Sophia, Italian/Spanish Sofia. Arabic صوفيا is only a transcription some families use — not a native Arabic etymology — so we leave arabic empty.
Wisdom, in the Greek. Soft enough for the sill.