Given name & surname
Hama
“from the city on the river”
Hama is used as a given name and a surname. One Arabic interpretation is “from the city on the river.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “from the city on the river.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
How it developed
Built from Old English hām (“home, realm”) + -a.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Hama’s family of names
In Old English usage, Hama shares a linguistic root with the Old High German form HAIMO. Hama has a related form in Hamah. Hama has a related form in Hamma.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
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 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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