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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈliːə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -iːə
Proper noun
[edit]Leah
- (biblical) The elder daughter of Laban, sister to Rachel, and first wife of Jacob.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 29:16-17::
- And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well-favoured.
- A female given name from Hebrew.
- 2010, Cavn Wright, Bedtime Tales, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 113:
- "I'm Leah Brennan. How can I help you...Gideon?" He gave a short laugh. "Leah! Nice name. Between the two of us, we sound like the Old Testament, don't we?"
- A surname.
Translations
[edit]elder daughter of Laban
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given name
Anagrams
[edit]Norwegian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English Leah, in regular use since the 1990s. Used as a modern spelling variant of the Norwegian biblical name Lea.
Proper noun
[edit]Leah
- a female given name
References
[edit]- [1] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 1711 females with the given name Leah, compared to 1274 named Lea, living in Norway on January 1st 2011. Accessed on March 29th, 2011.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From leah.
Proper noun
[edit]Leah m (genitive/dative lui Leah)
- a surname originating as an ethnonym
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