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Thomas
Given Name
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| Gender |
Male |
| Meaning |
twin |
| Origin |
Aramaic |
| Related names |
Tom, Tŏmas, Tommy, Tomo,and Tomislav |
| Wikipedia articles |
All pages beginning with Thomas |
Thomas is a common given name for males. It originated from the Aramaic designation תום or Tôm. The meaning of the name is "twin", and in the New Testament the designation was applied to Thomas the Apostle.[1]
Tom or Thom are abbreviations of Thomas and Tommy a common variant. A relatively uncommon variant is spelled as "Tommie". In signatures, it is sometimes abbreviated "Thos." The female versions of this name are Thomasina and Tamsin and Tasmina or Tasmino.
See also: Thomas (surname)
Variants
- Arabic: Touma
- Armenian: Tovmas
- Australian: Tommo
- Belarusian: Тамаш (Tamash)
- Breton: Tomaz
- Bulgarian: Тома (Toma)
- Catalan: Tomàs
- Chinese: 多馬 (Duoma, Biblical), 湯瑪斯 (Tangmasi, general translation), 湯瑪士 (Tangmashi)
- Croatian: Tomislav, Tomo, Tome
- Czech: Tomáš
- Danish: Thomas
- Dutch: Thomas, Tom, Tomas, Thom
- English: Thomas, Tom, Thom, Tommy
- Estonian: Toomas
- Faroese: Tummas
- Finnish: Tuomas
- Filipino: Tomas
- French: Thomas
- German: Thomas, Tom
- Greek, polytonic: Θωμᾶς (Thōmâs) = monotonic Θωμάς (Thomás) (Saint Thomas also: Δίδυμος (Didymos, "twin"))
- Hebrew: Teomo
- Hungarian: Tamás
- Icelandic: Tómas
- Irish: Tomás, Tommy
- Italian: Tommaso (also sometimes Tomaso)
- Japanese: トーマス (Tomasu)
- Korean: 도마 (Doma; Toma; biblical), 토머스 (Tomeoseu; T'omŏsŭ)
- Latin: Thomas (Saint Thomas also: Didymus)
- Lithuanian: Tomas
- Macedonian: Томислав, Τоми, Томо, Томас, Τоме
- Malayalam: തോമാ (Thoma), തോമാസ് (Thomas), തൊമ്മന് (Thommen), ഉമ്മന് (Oommen), തൊമ്മി (Thommy), ടോമി (Tommy), ടോം (Tom)
- Maori: Tamihana
- Marsian: Ogg
- Norwegian : Thomas, Tomas, Tom
- Polish: Tomasz, Tomek
- Portuguese: Tomás, Tomé
- Persian: Tomasp
- Romanian: Tomas
- Russian: Фома́ (written: Foma, pronounced: Famá)
- Samoan: Tomasi
- Scottish Gaelic: Tomás
- Scots: Tam
- Serbian: Тома (Toma)
- Slovak: Tomáš
- Slovenian: Tomaž
- Spanish: Tomás
- Swedish: Tomas, Thomas
- Thai: โทมัส (To-mus)
- Welsh: Tomos
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