Agafa () is an old and uncommon Russian female
first name
First most commonly refers to:
* First, the ordinal form of the number 1
First or 1st may also refer to:
Acronyms
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[Petrovsky, p. 38] It is derived from the
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...
word ''αγαθή'', meaning ''kind'', ''good''.
It can also be a variant of the name
Agafiya.
[Superanskaya, pp. 23 and 278] The name was included int various, often handwritten, church calendars throughout the 17th–19th centuries, but was omitted from the official
Synod
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Menologium at the end of the 19th century.
The
diminutive
A diminutive is a word obtained by modifying a root word to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment, and sometimes to belittle s ...
s of "Agafa" are Agafochka (), Gafa (), and Aga ().
References
Notes
Sources
*Н. А. Петровский (N. A. Petrovsky). "Словарь русских личных имён" (''Dictionary of Russian First Names''). ООО Издательство "АСТ". Москва, 2005.
*А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Словарь русских имён" (''Dictionary of Russian Names''). Издательство Эксмо. Москва, 2005.
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Given names of Greek language origin
Feminine given names
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