| Pronunciation | ‘’Di-MIR-ah |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Hindu, Albanian, Hebrew, Latin, Sanskrit, Slavic, Indian, Korean, Finnish, Japanese, Turkish |
| Meaning | "peaceful", "amazing", "beautiful", "peace", "prosperous","soft like velvet rose", "ocean","sea","billionaire","princess","happy","famous" |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Miranda, Myra, Meera, Mireliana, Miriam, Mila |
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Mira is a feminine given name with varying meanings. In the Romance languages, it is related to the Latin words for 'wonder' and 'wonderful'.[1][2] In Slavic languages, it means 'peace' and is often used as part of a longer name, such as Miroslava (masculine form: Miroslav), Mirjana, or Sławomira (masculine form: Sławomir). In Albanian, it means 'goodness' or 'kindness'. In Sanskrit, it means 'ocean', 'sea', 'limit', or 'boundary'.[3] It is sometimes also a short form of other given names.
- ^ F. P. Leverett, A New and Copious Lexicon of the Latin Language (Boston: Rice & Kendell, 1853), p. 539.
- ^ Bruce Lansky, 100,000+ Baby Names (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006).
- ^ Maneka Gandhi, The Penguin Book of Hindi Names (Penguin Books India, 1992)