Carmen
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See also: carmen
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
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.
Anagrams[edit]
Cebuano[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Carmen
- A municipality of Cebu, Philippines
- a female given name from Spanish
Quotations[edit]
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Carmen.
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately from Spanish Carmen, from Carmelo, ultimately from Hebrew כַּרְמֶל.
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Carmen f
- A female given name.
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Carmen f
- A female given name from Spanish.
German[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Carmen
- A female given name from Spanish.
Romanian[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Carmen ?
- A female given name from Spanish.
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Carmen f
- A female given name transferred from the place name, traditionally popular in Spain.
- The letter C in the Spanish phonetic alphabet
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