Dora (Greek: Δώρα) is a female name of Greek origin, being a shortened form or derived from Dorothea (Dorothy) and Theodora (masculine Theodore),[1][2] meaning "gift" or in its full form "god's gift", from δῶρον, doron, "gift"[3] + θεός, theos, "god".[4] The name Dora can also be a short form of Isadora (Isidora). Doreen, Dorian, and Dorinda are other examples of names from the same root form.[1]
The earliest form of the word doron is the Mycenaean Greek 𐀈𐀨, dora, meaning "gifts", written in the Linear B syllabic script, but it is not an anthroponym, it is only the plural (δῶρα) of said word;[5] on the other hand, the names Theodora and Amphidora are attested in Linear B as 𐀳𐀃𐀈𐀨, te-o-do-ra, and 𐀀𐀠𐀈𐀨, a-pi-do-ra, respectively. The masculine counterpart of the latter, i.e. Amphidoros, is also found: 𐀀𐀠𐀈𐀫, a-pi-do-ro.[6]
In Albanian, dora means "hand". In Russian, Dora can be a diminutive of the male first name Agafodor.[7]
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People
- Dora Altmann (1881–1971), German actress
- Dora Annie Dickens (1850–1851), infant daughter of English novelist Charles Dickens
- Dora Anastasiou (born 1988), Cypriot beauty queen
- Dora Bakoyannis (born 1954), Greek politician
- Dora Barrancos (born 1940), Argentine academic and politician
- Dora Beedham née Spong (1879 – 1969), British nurse and suffragette
- Dora Bryan (1923–2014), British actress
- Dora Carrington (1893–1932), British painter
- Dora Erway (1889–1976), American artist and home economist
- Dora Gabe (1886–1983), Bulgarian Jewish poet
- Dora Greenwell (1821–1882), English poet
- Dora Hand (c. 1844–1878), American dance hall singer in Dodge City, Kansas
- Dora d'Istria (1828–1888), Romanian-Albanian writer
- Dora Herbert Jones (1890–1974), Welsh administrator and singer
- Dora Kalaus (born 1996), Croatian handball player
- Dora Krsnik (born 1992), Croatian handball player
- Dora Kyriakou (born 1967), Cypriot sprinter
- Dora Lewis (1862–1928), American suffragist
- Dora Maar (1907–1997), French model and photographer
- Dora Richards Miller, (1842–1914), Danish West Indies-born American author and educator
- Dora Mavor Moore (1888–1979), Canadian actress
- Dora Montefiore (1851–1933), English-Australian suffragist, socialist
- Dora Musielak, Mexican-American aerospace engineer, historian of mathematics, and book author
- Dora Pavel (born 1946), Romanian novelist
- Dora Pejačević (1885–1923), Croatian composer
- Dora Puelma (1898-1972), Chilean artist
- Dora Knowlton Ranous (1859–1916), American actress, author
- Dora Richter (1892–unknown), German transgender woman and the first known person to undergo complete male-to-female gender-affirming surgery
- Dora Rosetti (1908-1989), Greek doctor and writer
- Dora Russell (1894–1986), British author
- Dora Isella Russell (1925-1990) Uruguayan poet, journalist
- Dora Adele Shoemaker (1873-1962), American educator, writer
- Dora Stratou (1903–1988), Greek dancer and folklorist
- Dora Varella (born 2001), Brazilian skateboarder
- Dora V. Wheelock (1847–1923), American activist and writer
Fictional characters
- Dora Marquez, title character of Dora the Explorer
- Dora Spenlow, a character in David Copperfield
- "Dora the Female Explorer", a song by British band Stackridge from their debut album Stackridge
- Dora Winifred "D.W." Read, character in the Arthur book and television series
- Dora Orefice, character in the Life Is Beautiful movie
See also
References
Notes
- ^ a b Campbell, Mike (16 November 2019). "Meaning, origin and history of the name Doreen". Behind the Name. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
- ^ Campbell, Mike (25 April 2021). "Meaning, origin and history of the name Dora". Behind the Name. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
- ^ δῶρον. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.
- ^ θεός in Liddell and Scott.
- ^ "The Linear B word do-ra". Palaeolexicon. Word study tool of ancient languages. Raymoure, K.A. "do-ra-qe". Minoan Linear A & Mycenaean Linear B. Deaditerranean.
- ^ "te-o-do-ra-qe". Raymoure, K.A. "a-pi-do-ra". Minoan Linear A & Mycenaean Linear B. Deaditerranean.
- ^ Superanskaya, p. 24
Sources
- А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Современный словарь личных имён: Сравнение. Происхождение. Написание" (Modern Dictionary of First Names: Comparison. Origins. Spelling). Айрис-пресс. Москва, 2005. ISBN 5-8112-1399-9
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