name

From Middle English name, nome, from Old English nama, noma, from Proto-Germanic *namô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

• enPR: nām, IPA^(key): /neɪm/

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• Rhymes: -eɪm

name (plural names)

1. Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.

   Synonyms: proper name; see also Thesaurus:name

   • Bible, Genesis ii. 19

     Whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

   • Shakespeare

     That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.

   • 1904, L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz:

     So good a man as this must surely have a name.

   • 2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist:

     Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.

   I've never liked the name my parents gave me so I changed it at the age of twenty.

2. Reputation.
   • 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, III-iii:

     Good name in man and woman, dear my lord / Is the immediate jewel of their souls.

   • 1952, Old Testament, Revised Standard Version, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 2 Samuel 8:13:

     And David won a name for himself.

3. An abusive or insulting epithet.

   Stop calling me names!

4. A person (or legal person).
   • Dryden

     They list with women each degenerate name.

   • p. 2002, second edition of, 2002, Graham Richards, Putting Psychology in its Place, →ISBN, page 287 :

     Later British psychologists interested in this topic include such major names as Cyril Burt, William McDougall, […] .

   • 2008 edition of, 1998, S. B. Budhiraja and M. B. Athreya, Cases in Strategic Management, →ISBN page 79 :

     Would it be able to fight the competition from ITC Agro Tech and Liptons who were ready and able to commit large resources? With such big names as competitors, would this business be viable for Marico?

   • 2009 third edition of, 1998, Martin Mowforth and Ian Munt, Tourism and Sustainability, →ISBN, page 29 :

     International non-governmental organisations (INGOs), including such household names as Amnesty International, Greenpeace and […] .

5. Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
   • Macaulay

     The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name, came every day to pay their feigned civilities.

6. (computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
7. (Britain, finance) An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
8. Authority.

   Halt in the name of the law!

• anonymous
• cognomen
• namely
• nom de guerre
• nom de plume
• nominal
• pseudonym

• Sranan Tongo: nen
• → Japanese: ネーム

• name on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Old English namian, from Proto-Germanic *nōmōną, derived from the noun.

name (third-person singular simple present names, present participle naming, simple past and past participle named)

1. (ditransitive) To give a name to.
   • 1904, Baum, L. Frank, The Land of Oz:

     I will name the fellow 'Jack Pumpkinhead!'

   • 1913, Lincoln, Joseph C., chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.

   One visitor named Hou Yugang said he was not too concerned about climate change and Baishui’s melting.

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2. (transitive) To mention, specify.

   He named his demands.

   You name it!

   • 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America‎, archived from the original on 7 February 2019:

     The three countries were named in a new study from the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO.

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3. (transitive) To identify as relevant or important

   naming the problem

4. (transitive) To publicly implicate.

   The painter was named as an accomplice.

5. (transitive) To designate for a role.

   My neighbor was named to the steering committee.

6. (transitive, Westminster system politics) To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.
   • 2013 July 10, Bercow, John (Speaker of the House of Commons), (Please provide the book title or journal name), to MP Nigel Dodds:

     I must warn the Right Honourable gentleman, that if he persists in his refusal to comply with my order to withdraw [the words "deliberately deceptive"], I shall be compelled to name him.

• (give a name to): bename, designate, dub; see also Thesaurus:denominate

• christen
• epithet
• moniker
• sobriquet

Borrowed from Spanish ñame, substituting n for the unfamiliar Spanish letter ñ.

name (plural names)

1. Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.

• cush-cush

• -mane, -nema, Amen, Eman, Enma, MEAN, MENA, Mena, NEMA, NMEA, amen, mane, mean, mnae, neam

name

1. plural of naam

Borrowed from Sanskrit नामन् (nāman).

name

1. name

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

name ?

1. (Thirteen Communities) name

• “name” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

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name

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of nemen

• amen, mane

name

1. grass

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

name

1. Rōmaji transcription of なめ

Borrowed from Persian نامه‎ (name).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑːmɛ/

name f

1. letter (a document)

name m

1. locative singular of namas
2. vocative singular of namas

From Old Dutch namo, from Proto-Germanic *namô.

nāme m or f

1. name
2. fame, reputation

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• nāmen

• Dutch: naam
• Limburgish: naam, naom

From Old Dutch *nāma, from Proto-Germanic *nēmō.

nâme f

1. taking
2. receiving

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• nēmen

• Dutch: name (mostly in compounds)

• “name”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “name (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
• “name (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

• nome

From Old English nama.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaːm(ə)/

name (plural names or namen)

1. name

• English: name
• Scots: name, naim, nem, nome

name

1. dative singular of nam

Compare Middle Persian 𐫗𐫀𐫖‎ (nʾm /nām/).

• IPA^(key): /nɔːme/

name (nam) ?

1. name
2. reputation