Given name & surname · Hebrew · Yiddish
נחום
נחום (nokhem) is a masculine given name from Hebrew. It is used in Hebrew and Yiddish.
Hebrew and YiddishWritten in Hebrew script, read right to left. In English: alfabe çevirisi gerekiyor.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Hebrew נַחוּם (nakhúm); its root is Hebrew נ־ח־ם.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
נחום’s family of names
In Hebrew usage, נחום has a conventional equivalent in the German form Nachum. In Yiddish usage, נחום can be written in the Roman alphabet as nokhem. In Hebrew usage, נחום as a surname has a transliteration in alfabe çevirisi gerekiyor.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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