Carmen
See also: carmen
English
Etymology
Spanish Carmen, cognate with English Carmel. Made famous outside Spain by the opera Carmen (1875) by Georges Bizet. The male name is from Italian Carmine.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Carmen
- A female given name from Spanish in the nineteenth century.
- 1914 Keith Clark, The Spell of Spain, The Page Company 1914, page 223:
- Not all of them looked "Spanish", but, no doubt, all of them were Spanish, even the blue-eyed, white, sylph-like creature, dressed in pale blue and white, who looked much more like a Murillo Madonna than like Carmen, but who danced like a Carmen, with a lithe, luring body entirely without stays[...]
- 1988 Elmore Leonard, Killshot, Arbor House 1989, →ISBN, page 145:
- "But your Mom won," Carmen said, "and named you after a movie star. Moms get away with murder. Mine, you probably think, named me after the girl in the opera."
- "Tell you the truth," Wayne said, "I never thought about it."
- "She didn't. She named me after Guy Lombardo's brother, Carmen Lombardo, he sang with the band.
- 1914 Keith Clark, The Spell of Spain, The Page Company 1914, page 223:
- (dated, rare) A male given name from Italian.
- A surname.
- A town in Oklahoma.
- An unincorporated community in Idaho.
Translations
female given name
Anagrams
Cebuano
Etymology
Proper noun
Carmen
- A municipality of Cebu, Philippines
- a female given name from Spanish
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Carmen.
Dutch
Etymology
Ultimately from Spanish Carmen, from Carmelo, ultimately from Hebrew כַּרְמֶל.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Carmen f
- a female given name
French
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Carmen f
- a female given name from Spanish
German
Proper noun
Carmen
- a female given name from Spanish
Romanian
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Carmen f (genitive/dative lui Carmen)
- a female given name from Spanish
Spanish
Etymology
Shortened from María (del) Carmen, an epithet of the Virgin Mary at (Mount) Carmel, by folk etymology associated with Latin and Spanish carmen (“song, poem”).
Proper noun
Carmen f
- a female given name transferred from the place name, traditionally popular in Spain
- the letter C in the Spanish spelling alphabet
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