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Mid-17th century. Equivalent to name sake name 's sake ", first found in Bible translations as a rendering of a Hebrew idiom meaning "to protect one's reputation" or possibly "vouched for by one's reputation." A familiar example is in Psalm 23:3, "he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake" (King James Bible, 1604).
namesake (plural namesakes
An entity that lends its name to another entity.
Synonym: eponym A person with the same name as another; often, a parent or the child named after them.
One who is named after another.
Bill Sr's namesake , Bill Jr, is 30 years younger.
One for whom another is named.
Synonym: eponym Bill Jr's namesake , Bill Sr, is 30 years older.
2018 Hobson-Jobson ”, in International Journal of Lexicography , volume 31 , number 4, →DOI 493 :It is the only citation from 1902, and was clearly added to the manuscript at a late stage, being only one of two examples of the dictionary’s namesake actually discovered by Crooke.
( by extension ) ship , a building , or a medical condition, symptom, or sign) that is named after someone or something.
Synonym: eponym person, place or thing named after another person, place or thing
person with the same name as another
Albanian: adash (sq) m
Arabic: سَمِيّ m ( samiyy ) , سَمِيَّة f ( samiyya )
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܒܪ ܫܡܐ m ( bar šəmā ) , ܒܥܠ ܫܡܐ m ( bəʿel šəmā ) , ܒܥܠܬ ܫܡܐ f ( baʿlaṯ šəmā )
Armenian: անվանակից (hy) ( anvanakicʻ )
Azerbaijani: adaş (az)
Bashkir: аҙаш ( aźaş )
Belarusian: цёзка m or f ( cjózka ) , аднафамі́лец m ( adnafamíljec ) ( the same surname ) , аднафамі́ліца f ( adnafamílica )
Bikol Central: tokayo
Bulgarian: съи́менник (bg) m ( sǎímennik ) , съи́менничка f ( sǎímennička ) , ада́ш (bg) m ( adáš ) ( colloquial )
Catalan: homònim (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 同名者 ( tóngmíngzhě ) , 同名 的人 ( tóngmíng de rén )
Czech: jmenovec (cs) m jmenovkyně f
Danish: navnefælle c navne c ( archaic ) , navnebroder c navnebror c ( male ) , navnesøster c ( female )
Dutch: naamgenoot (nl) m or f
Esperanto: samnomulo
Estonian: nimekaim
Faroese: navni m navna f
Finnish: kaima (fi)
French: homonyme (fr) m
German: Namensvetter (de) m
Hindi: हमनाम m ( hamnām )
Hungarian: névrokon (hu) , drusza (hu)
Italian: omonimo (it) m
Japanese: 同名異人 (ja) ( どうめいいじん, dōmei ijin ) , 同姓同名 ( dōseidōmei )
Kazakh: адас ( adas ) , аттас ( attas )
Khalaj: adaş
Korean: 동명인 (ko) ( dongmyeong'in )
Kyrgyz: атташ (ky) ( attaş )
Macedonian: имењак m ( imenjak ) , имењачка f ( imenjačka )
Mongolian: амьдай (mn) ( amʹdaj )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: navnebror (no) m ( male ) ; navnesøster (no) m or f ( female ) ; navne m
Nynorsk: namne m namnebror m ( male ) ; namnesyster f namnesøster f ( female )
Old Norse: nafni m nafna f
Ottoman Turkish: آداش ( adaş )
Persian: همنام (fa) ( hamnâm )
Polish: imiennik (pl) m imienniczka (pl) f
Portuguese: tocaio (pt) m homónimo (pt) m ( Portugal ) , homônimo (pt) m ( Brazil ) , xará (pt) m or f ( Brazil )
Romanian: tiz (ro) m
Russian: тёзка (ru) m or f ( tjózka ) , однофами́лец (ru) m ( odnofamílec ) ( the same surname ) , однофами́лица (ru) f ( odnofamílica )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: и̏мења̄к m презимѐња̄к m
Roman: ȉmenjāk (sh) m prezimènjāk (sh) m
Slovak: menovec m menovkyňa f
Slovene: soimenjak m soimenjakinja f
Spanish: tocayo (es) m tocaya f homónimo (es) m homónima (es) f colombroño (es) m ( rare )
Swedish: namne (sv)
Tajik: ҳамном ( hamnom ) , ҳамфамилия ( hamfamiliya ) ( the same surname )
Tatar: адаш (tt) ( adaş )
Tofa: шооза ( şooza )
Turkish: adaş (tr)
Turkmen: adaş
Tuvan: атташ ( attaş )
Ukrainian: тезко́ m ( tezkó ) , те́зка f ( tézka ) , однофамі́льник m ( odnofamílʹnyk ) ( the same surname ) , однофамі́льниця f ( odnofamílʹnycja )
Urdu: ہمنام m ( hamnām )
Uzbek: adash (uz)
Vietnamese: người trùng tên
namesake (third-person singular simple present namesakes present participle namesaking simple past and past participle namesaked
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