Isis is a female first name. The initial popularity of the name derived from its association with the goddess Isis of the Egyptian pantheon. Isis ranked...
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occupation. The name "Isis" is especially used in the context of rowing at the University of Oxford. A number of rowing regattas are held on the Isis, including...
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ISIS, Isiac, Iside, Isis, or isis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Isis is a goddess from the polytheistic pantheon of Ancient Egypt. Isis or ISIS...
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The most popular given names vary nationally, regionally, and culturally. Lists of widely used given names can consist of those most often bestowed upon...
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Tamara is a variant of the Hebrew feminine given name Tamar, a biblical name. The variant originated within the Russian language and spread into other...
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given name with varied origins. It is a Turkish feminine given name meaning Asia. It is a Bulgarian and Russian diminutive form of the feminine given...
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Isis was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kingdom...
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a female given name, of German origin, but widespread in the English-speaking world since the end of the nineteenth century. The German name Linde was...
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name Isi & Ossi, a 2020 German romantic comedy film Joy Isi Bewaji, Nigerian writer This page or section lists people that share the same given name....
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Islamic State (redirect from ISIS)
Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational...
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A name in the Italian language consists of a given name (Italian: nome) and a surname (cognome); in most contexts, the given name is written before the...
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Farida (Arabic: فريدة) is an Arabic feminine given name, meaning unique/ precious pearl. In Urdu it is spelled and pronounced the same way as Arabic. In...
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Isidore (redirect from Isadora (given name))
masculine given name. The name is derived from the Greek name Isídōros (Ἰσίδωρος) and can literally be translated to 'gift of Isis'. The name has survived...
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Isis (sometimes stylized ISIS) was an American post-metal band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1997 by guitarist and vocalist Aaron Turner, bassist...
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Isidora (category Given names)
a female given name of Greek origin, derived from Ἰσίδωρος, Isídōros (a compound of Ἶσις, Ísis, and δῶρον, dōron: "gift of [the goddess] Isis"). The male...
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in The Secrets of Isis, a live-action television program starring Joanna Cameron that served as the second half of The Shazam!/Isis Hour, the character...
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one Egyptian story, the sun god Ra's true name was cunningly uncovered by Isis. Using a secret scheme, Isis gained complete dominion over Ra. This enabled...
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Nehme (Arabic: نعمة) is an Arabic unisex given name, meaning "blessing" or "grace". While originally a given name, Nehme has developed into a common Lebanese...
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The Secrets of Isis, originally broadcast as Isis, is an American live-action superhero television series produced by Filmation from 1975 to 1976 for CBS's...
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Joshua is a given name derived from the Hebrew יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (Modern: Yəhōšūaʿ, Tiberian: Yŏhōšūaʿ), prominently belonging to Joshua, an early Hebrew leader...
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Springer. ISBN 978-1-85233-193-1. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Isis (crater). Isis at The Moon Wiki LTO-42C3 Dawes — L&PI topographic map of area....
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Aaron is an English masculine given name. The 'h' phoneme in the original Hebrew pronunciation "Aharon" (אהרן) is dropped in the Greek, Ἀαρών, from which...
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Queen of Heaven (antiquity) (section Isis)
"Queen of heaven". Isis was venerated first in Egypt. As per the Greek historian Herodotus, writing in the fifth century BC, Isis was the only goddess...
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as Isetneferet, Isisnofret etc.) was an ancient Egyptian female name, meaning “Isis is beautiful”. Queen Isetnofret I, a wife of Pharaoh Ramesses II...
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Osiris myth (redirect from Legend of Osiris and Isis)
followers try to damage the corpse, and Isis and her allies must protect it. Once Osiris is made whole, Isis conceives his son and rightful heir, Horus...
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War against the Islamic State (redirect from 2014 military intervention against ISIS)
the war against the Islamic State (ISIS), or the International military intervention against Islamic State (ISIS). In later years, there were also minor...
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"Maa-her." Notable people with the name include: Maher al-Agal, a Syrian ISIS commander Maher Arar, Syrian-Canadian telecommunications engineer whose legal...
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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (redirect from Caliph of ISIS)
ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State, St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2015, p. 76 "The Secret Life of ISIS...
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Osiris (section Etymology of the name)
Osiris' throne. His wife, Isis, finds the body of Osiris and hides it in the reeds where it is found and dismembered by Set. Isis retrieves and joins the...
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and mater/donna, used prominently for Egyptian antiquity mother goddess, Isis, and allegedly adopted by Catholic priests for Mary (Mother of Jesus). Historians...
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