Thirza

English

Etymology

Borrowed from the German variant of Tirzah through 18th-century literature.

Proper noun

Thirza

1. A female given name from Hebrew.
   • 1817 Robert Patterson, Recluse: The Art of Domestick Happiness: and other poems, page 182:

     What, tell me, my Thirza, provokes thee to speak, / In high-sounding phrases, our Mordecai's name?

Anagrams

• Tirzah

German

Proper noun

Thirza

1. a female given name, variant of Tirza
   • 1758 Salomon Gessner, Der Tod Abels, Zürich (1823), page 12; translated in 1811 by Mary Collyer as The Death of Abel, page 5:

     Da giengen Abel und seine geliebte Thirza aus ihrer Hütte hervor, in die nahe geruchreiche Laube von Jasminen und Rosen.

     - - - when Abel and his beloved Thirza quitted their habitation, and repaired to a neighbouring bower of jessamine and roses.