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in reply to a message by bound2prosper
I assume (unless your family is Arabic) that you were named after the country, Saudi Arabia. The country's name derives from the surname of its first king, King Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud.
I found a site (http://snipurl.com/e7dv) which says that Saud means "fortunate", which leads me to believe that it is probably the same name (with a different transliteration) of this site's Sa'd (Sad -- click for the hyperlink). In that case, your name is a variant of Sa'dia (Sadia) which has the same meaning: fortunate.
~ Caitlín
?????????????? ~ Elspeth, Merry, Tomás, Kip, Ælfwine, Adán, Marit, Bran, Ester, Andrew, Isobel, Jeromiah Andrea, Annit Elisabetta, Josue Alejandro
I found a site (http://snipurl.com/e7dv) which says that Saud means "fortunate", which leads me to believe that it is probably the same name (with a different transliteration) of this site's Sa'd (Sad -- click for the hyperlink). In that case, your name is a variant of Sa'dia (Sadia) which has the same meaning: fortunate.
~ Caitlín
?????????????? ~ Elspeth, Merry, Tomás, Kip, Ælfwine, Adán, Marit, Bran, Ester, Andrew, Isobel, Jeromiah Andrea, Annit Elisabetta, Josue Alejandro
This message was edited 4/23/2005, 6:05 PM
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There's also Sauda
Sauda is a completely separate African name from the Arabic, but its similarity to Saudi Arabia is so striking I thought I'd bring it up. Sauda means "dark complexion" in Swahili.
Miranda
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Sauda is a completely separate African name from the Arabic, but its similarity to Saudi Arabia is so striking I thought I'd bring it up. Sauda means "dark complexion" in Swahili.
"Six hours later I still haven't done my homework, but I did come up with 245 name combos, seven of which I might name my child." — Modified LJ icon quote
Proud adopter of 15 punctuation marks.
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