2007-02-25 15:02:01 · 5 answers · asked by margaux l 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Nadia means "hope" in Russian and "moist, tender, delicate" in Arabic.
Hope this helps. :)
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2007-02-25 15:07:19 · answer #1 · answered by Rw 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The name Nadia is of Russian origin and it means 'hope'.
2007-02-25 23:05:32 · answer #2 · answered by rosellyne.thompson 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually this particular name goes all the way back to 1 BC. The story goes that a young man and his new bride were searching for a new mud hut somewhere in Egypt because their other hut was destroyed by some sort of plague of eels and mad meerkats a few weeks before. His name was Nadamnit and hers was Iaeiaawlssflt, (Ia for short). Both were dirt poor but were determined to eek out a megar life for themselves farming the harsh lands for mouthfulls of pitiful wheat and diseased melons. At last, after a long search, Nadamnit and Ia purchased a ramshakle mud hut on about 1/3 of an acre of dust and rock. There was one well that yeilded small amounts of rancid water and the land backed up on the cesspool of a beautiful palace belonging to a rich merchant. It was the finest home Nadamnit and Ia had ever lived in. They toiled long into the night each and every day, struggling to scrape together enough nutrients to maintain their dismal lives. One day, Ia announced that she was with child and Nadamnit, always the practical one, left in the dark of night and ran away to join the Greek Navy. Ia gave birth to a lovely girl nine months later and named her after her coward father and herself, thus the name, 'Nadia'. Nadia grew up in the family home and struggled through nursing school while she was a teenager in order to better herself. She married the son of the rich merchant whose cesspool she often sat by on weekends writing poetry and catching blowflys for the evening supper. Living in a mudhut behind a cesspool had made her a bitter woman and she promptly hired a lawyer with her husband's money and divorced him, taking half of his fortune and his house and boat. Then she and her mother, now living in the palace, hired a professional assassin and had her deadbeat father murdered in his own bed. They both lived happily ever after.
2007-02-25 23:05:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I love this NAME!!!!!!!! well but the way it means "hope"! it is also russian. your name was before nadia it was called "nadine".
Your name of Nadia makes you easy-going and refined, but detracts from your physical vitality.
2007-02-25 23:33:18 · answer #4 · answered by emily 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means "hope" in Russian. Good luck?
2007-02-25 23:04:39 · answer #5 · answered by answergrrl3 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋