Luba
[ˈluːbə]Meaning
alternate transcription of Russian and Ukrainian Люба, and the usual Georgian form
Background Story
Luba is used in Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Latvian, Macedonian, Serbian, Slovak and Slovene. Related forms recorded for it are Liouba, Lyuba and Lyubochka, and Ľuba is the same spelling. The Slavic given name Ljuba, of which Luba is one recorded spelling, is best known as a masculine name in Serbian, cognate to Ljubomir or Ljubo, while in other Slavic languages it is more often feminine, cognate to Lyubov.
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From the Slavic element ľuby, "love"; or short form of names beginning with it
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Variant of Leila or a feminine form of Lyle
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Old Irish name of a character in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.
Amak
Amra
Old Irish amrae, 'wonder'; the word behind the name of a panegyric.
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Russian diminutive of Anna
Aoife
From Old Irish Aífe, from óiph, meaning "beauty" (modern Irish aoibh)