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
( originally ) named after another or for whom another is named.
Synonym: eponym 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 or a building that is named after someone or something.A person with the same name as another. 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 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
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
( transitive ) 