Petsuchos () was ( the Greek rendition of ) the name given to the live crocodile at Crocodilopolis in Ancient Egypt, which was worshipped as a manifestation of the Egyptian god Sobek ().

In Ireland's County Limerick, near the River Shannon, there is a quiet little suburb by the name of Garryowen, which means `` Garden of Owen ''.

Boun My -- the name means one who has a boun, a celebration, and is therefore lucky -- was born in Savannakhet, the Border of Paradise.

Aristotle, whose name means " the best purpose ," was born in Stageira, Chalcidice, in 384 BC, about east of modern-day Thessaloniki.

Hesychius connects the name Apollo with the Doric απέλλα ( apella ), which means " assembly ", so that Apollo would be the god of political life, and he also gives the explanation σηκός ( sekos ), " fold ", in which case Apollo would be the god of flocks and herds.

The name comes from earlier Afrikaans and means " earth pig " or " ground pig " ( aarde earth / ground, varken pig ), because of its burrowing habits ( similar origin to the name groundhog ).

Its name means " earth wolf " in the Afrikaans / Dutch language.

The name " Yu-lin " means " feathers and forests ", referring to the numerous light-footed soldiers represented by these faint stars.

The name " Turkey " ( Türkiye ) means " land of the Turks " and was never used as a name of Anatolia specifically.

His real name was Muhammad bin Da ' ud Chaghri, and for his military prowess, personal valour, and fighting skills he obtained the surname Alp Arslan, which means " Heroic Lion " in Turkish.

They named the element " astatine ", a name coming from the great instability of the synthesized matter ( the source Greek word αστατος ( astatos ) means " unstable ").

The name atom comes from the Greek ἄτομος ( atomos, " indivisible ") from ἀ-( a -, " not ") and τέμνω ( temnō, " I cut "), which means uncuttable, or indivisible, something that cannot be divided further.

' Compositae ', an older but still valid name, means composite and refers to the characteristic inflorescence, a special type of pseudanthium found in only a few other angiosperm families.

However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.

The name Ardipithecus ramidus stems mostly from the Afar language, in which Ardi means " ground / floor " ( borrowed from the Semitic root in either Amharic or Arabic ) and ramid means " root ".

The name probably means " she who ( comes ) at dusk ," which would identify Aphrodite in her personification as the evening star, a significant parallel she shares with Mesopotamian Ishtar.

His name "" means " painless, without sorrow " in Sanskrit ( the a privativum and śoka " pain, distress ").

Their name derives from the Spanish el lagarto, which means " the lizard ".

According to Asinius Quadratus ( quoted in the mid-6th century by Byzantine historian Agathias ) their name means " all men ".

Their most widely known ethnonym is derived from the word ainu, which means " human " ( particularly as opposed to kamui, divine beings ), basically neither ethnicity nor the name of a race, in the Hokkaidō dialects of the Ainu language ; Emishi ( Ebisu ) and Ezo ( Yezo ) ( both ) are Japanese terms, which are believed to derive from another word for " human ", which otherwise survived in Sakhalin Ainu as enciw or enju.

The name means " red-beard " ( literally, " bronze-beard ") in Latin.

In Arabic, the name ' Abd Allah ' means " servant of Allah ".

It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.

The Osmanli ruler Osman I was the first Turkish ruler who minted coins in his own name in 1320s, for it bears the legend " Minted by Osman son of Ertugul ".

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā ( Persian پور سينا Pur-e Sina " son of Sina "; c. 980 – 1037 ), commonly known as Ibn Sīnā or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, who wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived.

" Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a monument, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's monument.

* Absalom is the name of Stephen Kumalo's son in " Lost in the Stars ", Kurt Weil's play based on the novel " Cry the Beloved Country ".

Absalom was the name of Stephen Kumalo's son in the novel.

* Absalom is the name of a short science fiction story by Henry Kuttner about the conflict between a father and son over the son's education.

( Paradoxically, in the modern version it is the rebellious son who has the first name " David ".

Lucius ’ name was changed to Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus and he became Claudius ’ s adopted son, heir and recognised successor.

His name can be read as " son of Ya Sin " ( the title of the 36th Sura of the Qur ' an ), suggesting he had obliterated his family past and was " re-born " of the Holy Book.

Ambrosius Aurelianus appears in later pseudo-chronicle tradition beginning with Geoffrey's Historiae Regum Britanniae with the slightly garbled name Aurelius Ambrosius, now presented as son of a King Constantine.

Enyalius, rather than another name for Ares, in at least one tradition was his son by Enyo.

The Haggada identifies them as separate people, the second being the first Abimelech's son, and that his original name was Benmelech (" son of the King ") but changed his name to his father's.

This is supported in the Haggada when " Benmelech " son of Abimelech changes his name to Abimelech when he becomes king.

Abd al-Rahman's alleged favorite son was his choice for successor, and would later be known as Hisham I. Abd ar-Rahman's progeny would continue to rule al-Andalus in the name of the house of Umayya for several generations, with the zenith of their power coming during the reign of Abd al-Rahman III.

Suggestions made to resolve the difficulty — e. g. that father and son each bore the same double name, or that Abiathar officiated during his father's lifetime and in his father's stead — have been supported by great names, but have not been fully accepted.

Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen (, also known as Karl von Österreich-Teschen ) ( Full name: Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz of Austria ) ( 5 September 1771 – 30 April 1847 ) was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of emperor Leopold II and his wife Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain.

Around 1947, Tutmarc's son, Bud, began marketing a similar bass under the Serenader brand name, prominently advertised in the nationally distributed L. D.

According to the Torah, Benjamin's ( or in some countries, Biniam's ) name arose when Jacob deliberately corrupted the name Benoni, the original name of Benjamin, since Benoni was an allusion to Rachel's dying just after she had given birth, as it means son of my pain.