nadia
/ˈnɑ.di.ə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.30 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A female given name from Russian used since the twentieth century.
name
A female given name from Arabic
name
A district of West Bengal, India.
Etymology
Originally the French spelling of На́дя (Nádja), an informal Russian pet form of the virtue name Наде́жда (Nadéžda, “Nadezhda, Nadyezhda”, literally “Hope”), from наде́жда (nadéžda, “hope”), entered as a translation of the Ancient Greek word from ἐλπίς (elpís, “hope”) with the same meaning. See also Ἐλπίς (Elpís, “Elpis”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: نديّة
Inflected Forms
Nadias (plural)