Names

Nathan

Nāṯān, 'he gave', was the prophet who rebuked King David. The name is the short form of a 'God gave' name like Nethanel or Jonathan; English Christians took it up after the Reformation, Church Slavonic turned it into Nafan, Armenian into Natʿan and Yiddish into Nosn, and Lessing's play 'Nathan the Wise' made it a byword for tolerance in German.

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From Late Latin to German

From Biblical Hebrew to Arabic

From Late Latin to Polish

From Late Latin to Hungarian

From Late Latin to French

From Koine Greek to Old Church Slavonic, Russian

From Koine Greek to Armenian

From Biblical Hebrew to Mandarin Chinese

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