I have already asked this question (in a different section of Yahoo Answers) but I did not get what I wanted. Several times I met people with name Micha. Some of them were from Holland, some from Russia, some from Israel. I am just wondering, is it a dutch name ?? How to pronounce it correctly? Tell me something about it please.
2007-04-08 11:48:48 · 10 answers · asked by Mikey 2 in Travel ➔ Europe (Continental) ➔ Netherlands
it is a Jewish biblical name, you pronounce as a throaty sound... cant explain how to do that here.....
you can look at this page to explain more... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micah
2007-04-10 22:37:04 · answer #1 · answered by giliga 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The origin of the name is Russia.
Manneke is right in how to pronounce it, it's like Mee-Sjah. Both parts of the name pronounced shortly, so not Meeeeeesjaaah, the 'mee' pronounced just like you say 'me'.
The 'a' as the last 'a' in 'America'.
In the Netherlands it is not a common name. It is much more common in Germany though.
In Dutch Michel is more common, pronounced as Mee-Shell. Also with a short 'Me'.
Both Micha and Michel come from Michael.
2007-04-11 06:44:01 · answer #2 · answered by Bloed 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've looked it up in the wikipedia.
In Dutch micha is the same as in English Micah. It's a Hebrew name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Micah
If you go to this page and you click on nederlands (means dutch) on the left you see the dutch version and the name Micah is changed in Micha. I would pronounce at like miesja. But it depends probably in which country you are how it is pronounced.
You can also choose many other languages and see how it is written in those languages.
2007-04-08 20:41:23 · answer #3 · answered by pffffffff 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hi,
It is true that the name originates from russia. In Holland you can write it in two different ways micha and mischa(like sacha and sascha). But they're both pronounced the same. The two micha's I know here in Holland are pronounced like me-sja just like sa-sja.
2007-04-13 01:01:32 · answer #4 · answered by Nic 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Micha is not originally a Dutch name. If it were a Dutch name, it would be pronounced with the "ch" sounding like a harder version of the "ch" in "loch".
However, it is pronounced "Meesha."
2007-04-11 05:47:56 · answer #5 · answered by manneke 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you are talking about Misha than it's russian name. Short for Mihail. But not Micha, there is no such thing in russian.
2007-04-13 15:03:57 · answer #6 · answered by Lisa 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is one of the more modern names in Holland.
the ch is pronounced like in CHocolate.
2007-04-08 19:13:40 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's Russian, believe me.
Other names who related are: Michel(le) (French), Michael(German)Mike(English).
2007-04-15 10:32:01 · answer #8 · answered by Chantal D. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know it is found in Germany also and its pronounced...using english pronounciation "mike-ah" but some could also go with
"mick-ah"
2007-04-08 17:01:42 · answer #9 · answered by picc0999 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
m - Mama
i - bE
ch - CHocolate
a - wAs
2007-04-09 03:10:05 · answer #10 · answered by gjmb1960 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋