Dear Genners
A friend of mine who does not have a computer is researching his name and
I volunteered to ask you about it.
Is the name Asman or any variant of it Jewish? Does it have a meaning? He
thinks it may be Persian or Turkish. His ancestors -he thinks were >from the
republic of Georgia.
I thank you in advance for any help
Lili Susser
Susserl@...

In article <00a001c116fc$e29a0980$daec0f18@...>,
Lili Susser <susserl@...> wrote:

Is the name Asman or any variant of it Jewish? Does it have a
meaning? He thinks it may be Persian or Turkish. His ancestors
-he thinks were >from the republic of Georgia.

I don't recall hearing of this before as a Jewish name. "Asman" is the
name of a Persian sky-god, and in Sanskrit is "heaven" or "stone". But
a Google search turns up several Jewish references, including
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/ushachi/ushatz.html
and
http://www.jcpa.org/jl/jl451.htm
So it could be Jewish. But there's also
www.colgate.edu/scene/mar1998/alumni/news45.html
which refers to a person of Armenian descent.

Robert Israel israel@...
Vancouver, BC, Canada

On 27 Jul 2001 18:18:35 -0700, susserl@... (Lili Susser) wrote:

Dear Genners
A friend of mine who does not have a computer is researching his name and
I volunteered to ask you about it.
Is the name Asman or any variant of it Jewish? Does it have a meaning? He
thinks it may be Persian or Turkish. His ancestors-he thinks were >from the
republic of Georgia.
I thank you in advance for any help
Lili Susser
Susserl@...

I knew a man with this name whose father (same surname) was Jewish.

Mervyn Doobov