What is Moira short for?

The name Moira, sometimes spelled Moyra, is an Anglicisation of the Irish name Máire, the Irish equivalent of Mary.
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What does the name Moira stand for?

Meaning:destiny, share, or fate. Moira is a girl's name of Greek origin. It translates to “destiny”, “share”, or “fate”, referring to the Greek incarnations of destiny who are known as the Fates.
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What does Moira mean in Gaelic?

The name Moira is girl's name of Irish origin meaning "bitter; beloved; drop of the sea".
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Is Moira Irish or Scottish?

The name Moira, sometimes spelled Moyra, is an Anglicisation of the Irish name Máire, the Irish equivalent of Mary.
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What is Moira ethnicity?

In the game, Moira serves as a healer who can refill her resources by damaging enemies with her main attack. Within the game's story, she is an Irish geneticist who refuses to let any "ethical constraints" interfere with scientific advancement.
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Is Moira a French name?

Moira is French Girl name and meaning of this name is "Sea of Bitterness, The Great".
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What does Moira mean in Greek?

The ancient Greek word moira (μοῖρα) means a portion or lot of the whole, and is related to meros, "part, lot" and moros, "fate, doom", Latin meritum, "reward", English merit, derived from the PIE root *(s)mer, "to allot, assign".
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What does the name Moira mean in Scottish?

The name Moira is primarily a female name of Scottish origin that means Of The Sea Or Bitter. Scottish/Irish form of Mary.
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Is Mora a name?

The name Mora is girl's name of Spanish origin meaning "blueberry". Intriguing derivation, though people will assume it's a simplified form of Maura.
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Where does the name Myra come from?

The name Myra was created by the 17th-century poet Fulke Greville 1st Barone Brooke (1554–1628). He possibly based it on Latin myrra meaning "myrrh" (a fragrant resin obtained from a tree). The name may be derived from Miranda as it can be the shortened version the name Mira.
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How do you pronounce Siobhán?

Pronounce the "Sio" portion of the name as "Shi" with a soft "ih" sound. Pronounce the "bhan" portion of the name as "vawn." "Vawn" should be pronounced to rhyme with "lawn" or "gone." Combine both syllables of the name to pronounce "Siobhan" as "Shi-vawn."
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What does name Mira mean?

Mira is a feminine given name with varying meanings. In the Romance languages, it is related to the Latin words for 'wonder' and 'wonderful'. In South Slavic languages, it means 'peace' and is often used as part of a longer name, such as Miroslava (masculine form: Miroslav) or Sławomira (masculine form: Sławomir).
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Is Maura an Irish name?

Maura is a female given name used in English, Spanish, Italian, Greece, Scots Gaelic, and Irish. It appears as the feminine form of the Roman given name Maurus and as an Anglicisation of Máire, the Irish form of Mary.
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How is Maeve pronounced?

Maeve. Many people named Maeve are used to despairing when even their closest friends manage to mispronounce or misspell their name. And to be fair, there's an awful lot of vowels to get your head around here. The correct pronunciation of this traditional name meaning 'she who intoxicates' or 'great joy', is 'may-veh'.
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What language does Moira speak?

Voiced by Irish actress Genevieve O'Reilly (known for her work in the Star Wars franchise as Mon Mothma), the best thing about Moira is that she speaks a bit of Gaeilge.
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What does name Kyra mean?

Kyra is a feminine given name that may derive from the Greek word kurá (meaning lady) or from Cyra, the feminine form of Cyrus.
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What does the name Lyra mean?

Lyra is a feminine given name of Greek and Latin origin meaning lyre. It is usually given in reference to the constellation and the Greek myth that inspired its naming. The name has associations with music and harmony and the night sky.
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Is Myra a rare name?

How common is the name Myra for a baby born in 2021? Myra was the 589th most popular girls name. In 2021 there were 505 baby girls named Myra. 1 out of every 3,524 baby girls born in 2021 are named Myra.
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What ethnicity is mora?

Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan (Móra): habitational name from any of the places named Mora, in some cases from mora 'mulberry' (Late Latin mora, originally the plural of classical Latin morum).
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What does mora mean in Irish?

Origin:Irish. Popularity:9436. Meaning:star of the sea.
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