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Re: names that mean apple
by lusia
3/24/2015, 1:30 AM
in reply to a message by Swiff
Pomona. Molle means apple in Albanian, Mela is apple in Italian
Not apples but other fruit names: Mai-means apricot blossom in Vietnamese, Golnar-flower and pomegrante. Sakura is cherry-blossom,
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- thegriffon
1/5/2019, 10:09 PM
Sakura is often translated cherry-blossom, but is not, in fact, cherry-blossom. It's the Japanese term for a wide range of native or naturalized Japanese flowering trees in the Prunus super-genus. In fact when English gardeners say "prunus", the Japanese would say "Sakura".
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- Rene   +1
3/24/2015, 12:12 PM
The common Albanian word "molle" means "apple", alright, but when I tried to find actual Albanian people with that name, I failed.In fact, checking Facebook, I could not find *anyone* with that name, Albanian or otherwise.Do you have examples?
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- lusia
3/24/2015, 2:05 PM
I am not entirely sure if anyone actually as the name molle, I just translated apple into Albanian and that's what came up. I thought it was a nice sounding name so suggested it.
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