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Carmen
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carmen Cármen
English
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Pronunciation
en /ˈkɑː(ɹ)mən/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Carmen.wav Southern England
en ɑː(ɹ)mən 2
Etymology 1
From en es Carmen, cognate with en Carmel. Made famous outside Spain by the opera Carmen (1875) by Georges Bizet.
Proper noun
en female Spanish from 19th c.
en 1914 Keith Clark The Spell of Spain The Page Company 1914 223 Not all of them looked "Spanish", but, no doubt, all of them were Spanish, even the blue-eyed, white, sylph-like creature, dressed in pale blue and white, who looked much more like a Murillo Madonna than like Carmen, but who danced like a Carmen, with a lithe, luring body entirely without stays[...]
en 1988 w:Elmore Leonard Killshot 145 Arbor House 1989 1557100411 "But your Mom won," Carmen said, "and named you after a movie star. Moms get away with murder. Mine, you probably think, named me after the girl in the opera.""Tell you the truth," Wayne said, "I never thought about it.""She didn't. She named me after Guy Lombardo's brother, Carmen Lombardo, he sang with the band.
en town s/Oklahoma.
en unincorporated community s/Idaho.
en @syn of:Rosales municipality p/Pangasinan c/Philippines. thumb|en TPLEX Carmen exit
Derived terms
en Del Carmen Carmen de Patagones El Carmen San Luis del Carmen
Translations
female given name
Bulgarian: bg Ка́рмен f
Catalan: ca Carme f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 卡門 Kǎmén
Esperanto: eo Karmena
French: fr Carmen f
Greek: el Κάρμεν f
Japanese: ja カルメン Karumen
Marathi: mr कार्मेन f
Russian: ru Кармен
Etymology 2
en :bor it:Carmine + 1
Proper noun
en dated rare en male Italian.
Etymology 3
From en es Carmen.
A variant of en Carman.
Proper noun
en.
References
Anagrams
en acemnr mancer McNear Camren -mancer
en unisex given names
Cebuano
Etymology
ceb :der es:Carmen + 1
Proper noun
ceb proper noun
ceb municipality p/Cebu c/Philippines
ceb 3 October 2017 https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/167426 Igsuon sa Mayor sa Catmon Nadakpan SuperBalita Cebu Gisikop ang igsuon sa mayor sa lungsod sa Carmen sa pagronda sa iyang balay sa Brgy. Flores kagahapon sa alas 6:45 sa buntag. https://web.archive.org/web/20180511084816/http://www.sunstar.com.ph:80/article/167426/ 11 May 2018
ceb female Spanish
2012 — Arpilleda, Jondy, Ihangyo sa Bulalakaw (10 June), Dagmay
ceb “Hunahunaon sa nako, Mare. Malahi ta, Mads, kinsa nang guwapa nga naa nagpuyo sa ilang Carmen ron?” Sukit ni Pepay.
Dutch
Etymology
Ultimately from nl es Carmen, from es Carmelo, ultimately from nl he כַּרְמֶל.
Pronunciation
nl /ˈkɑr.mən/
nl Nl-Carmen.ogg
nl Car men
Proper noun
f
nl female
French
Pronunciation
Carmèn
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-Carmen.wav France
Proper noun
f
fr female Spanish
German
Proper noun
de proper noun
de female Spanish
Romanian
Pronunciation
ro LL-Q7913 (ron)-KlaudiuMihaila-Carmen.wav
Proper noun
f lui
ro female Spanish
Spanish
Etymology
Shortened from María (del) Carmen, an epithet of the Virgin Mary at (Mount) Carmel, by folk etymology associated with Latin and Spanish es carmen song, poem.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f
es female place names, traditionally popular in Spain
the letter C in the Spanish spelling alphabet
Derived terms
es Maricarmen
Tagalog
Etymology
tl :der es:Carmen + 1
Pronunciation
+,Carmén
Proper noun
+,Carmén +
tl female Spanish
tl mun p/Cebu c/Philippines
tl mun p/Agusan del Norte c/Philippines
tl mun p/Cotabato c/Philippines
tl mun p/Davao del Norte c/Philippines
Related terms
tl Maricar