Norah
[ˈnɔːrə]Meaning
variant of Nora; also an alternate transcription of the Arabic Nura
Background Story
Norah is a variant of Nora, and in that use it is recorded in languages including Ancient Roman, Breton, Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian and Latvian. It is separately an alternate transcription of the Arabic نورة or نورا, rendered in Latin letters as Nura, and is used in Azerbaijani, Bengali, Indonesian, Malay, Swahili, Turkish, Urdu and Uyghur.
Variations
Nora, Norah
Related Names
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