Omid (name)

Omid
Gender Male
Origin
Word/name Persian

Omid (Persian: اُمید) also transliterated as Omeed, Ohmeed, Omead, Omied, Umeed, or Ümit (Turkish equivalent) is a common Persian male given name, meaning hope.[1][2]

Given name

Surname

Other uses

  • Omid, first Iranian-launched satellite, launched on February 2, 2009
  • "Omid", an electronic database of human rights violations in Iran, acting as a memorial to the victims executed by the Islamic Republic since it was established in 1979.[3]
  • "Omid", a song on Thievery Corporation's album The Richest Man in Babylon
  • Apache Omid, an open source transaction processing system for Apache HBase[4][5]
  • M. Omid, pen name of Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, notable contemporary Iranian poet

References

  1. http://www.iranrights.org/english/memorial.php Boroumand Foundation: Omid, a memorial in defense of human rights
  2. http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/antisemitism/voices/transcript/?content=20070607 Voices on Antisemitism Interview with Ladan Boroumand
  3. http://www.iranrights.org/english/memorial.php
  4. "Apache Omid – What is Omid?". omid.incubator.apache.org. Retrieved 2016-12-02.
  5. http://yahoohadoop.tumblr.com/post/129089878751/introducing-omid-transaction-processing-for
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