Given name · cu
Иоанъ
Иоанъ (Ioanŭ) is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Old Church Slavonic.
cuWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Ioanŭ.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Иоанъ comes from Ancient Greek, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ancient Greek Ῐ̓ωᾰ́ννης, from Biblical Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (yōḥɔnɔn), built from Biblical Hebrew יְהוֹ־ (yəhō-) + חַנּוּן (ḥannūn).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Иоанъ’s family of names
Иоанъ has a later derivative in IVANAS. Иоанъ has a conventional equivalent in the German form Johannes. Иоанъ can be written in the Roman alphabet as Ioanŭ.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Иоанъ has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Иоанъ comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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