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This is a friend's FIRST name. I found limited info as a surname. Would like to know the origin, meaning and scriptual meaning.
Jena
Jena
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My name is Jena. In Arabic it means a 'Small Bird', there's also a town in Germany called 'Jena'. Also in Polish, Sanskrit meaning 'paradise'.
https://nameberry.com/babyname/Jena
When I was young, I hated my name because NO one could pronounce it even if I verbally told them the pronunciation but I have grown to love it.
https://nameberry.com/babyname/Jena
When I was young, I hated my name because NO one could pronounce it even if I verbally told them the pronunciation but I have grown to love it.
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sorry, most of what you read on Nameberry is fictional, or muddled Chinese whispers, Jana (feminine) is Arabic for "Paradise" or "garden", small bird is "uṣfūr" (masculine); the closet Sanskrit is Jina (masculine), meaning "Victor/victorious", or "old", or Jana "birth, offspring" (also masculine, and therefore also "person, man"); Jena is upper Sorbian (a slavic language of eastern Germany) for "one" when feminine; while Jene is a rather archaic German feminine/plural pronoun cognate with "yon", which makes me think the town has never had a real name, it was just "that" place.
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"Scriptural meaning" is NOT part of "etymology". There are some books written by evangelical Christian authors that give so-called "sciprtural meanings", but these are completely the interpretations of the individual author and don't have any historical status. If you want a scriptural meaning for Beasley, you will have to get a concordance and look through it to find a Bible verse that is related somehow to its etymology.
And the etymology of Beasley is that is is original an English surname indicating that one's ancestor came from a town called Beesley in Lancashire, England. According to Hanks & Hodges's A Dictionary of Surnames, the place name was originally from two Old English words that meant "bent grass" and "clearing".
And the etymology of Beasley is that is is original an English surname indicating that one's ancestor came from a town called Beesley in Lancashire, England. According to Hanks & Hodges's A Dictionary of Surnames, the place name was originally from two Old English words that meant "bent grass" and "clearing".
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