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Alternates for first name Blimah #names
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tsdesser@...
Does anyone know if the name "Blimah" is short for another more formal name? I'm trying to find records for a Polish ancestor with this first name but not finding anything. Thanks for any thoughts....
Terry Desser
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rv Kaplan
Blimah is a form of Blumah, which means 'flower' (like Fleur in French). Harvey Kaplan Glasgow, Scotland ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: tsdesser via groups.jewishgen.org <tsdesser=yahoo.com@...> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 at 21:24 Subject: [JewishGen.org] Alternates for first name Blimah #names To: <main@...> Does anyone know if the name "Blimah" is short for another more formal name? I'm trying to find records for a Polish ancestor with this first name but not finding anything. Thanks for any thoughts.... Terry Desser
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Susan&David
Variant of Bluma, from the German word for flower. On of my
father's cousins, from Poland had that name.
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David Rosen Boston, MA
On 6/26/2022 4:04 PM, tsdesser via
groups.jewishgen.org wrote:
Does anyone know if the name "Blimah" is short for another more formal name? I'm trying to find records for a Polish ancestor with this first name but not finding anything. Thanks for any thoughts....
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Odeda Zlotnick
I kind of wonder which search engine doesn't know Blima and Bluma are the same name. The "u" and "i" (short "i") are often interchangeable in some Yiddish dialects - Polish being one of them. So "Blima" is another way of pronouncing Bluma. As are Blime[h] and Blume[h] You may be entering an incorrect surname if you're "not finding anything". When I entered "Blima" in JRI Poland, without a surname, I found - literally - thousand and thousand of records. Another name for Bluma is Flora -- Odeda Zlotnick Jerusalem, Israel.
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dasw5@...
From: Jewish Personal Names
by Rabbi Shmuel Gorr Dassy Wilen dasw5@...
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Cynthia Hollinsworth
It is also possible that Blimah is the Hebrew name for the Polish name Blanka
-- Cynthia Hollinsworth
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Helen Kon
As far as I know, Blima is a Yiddish name and not a Hebrew name. Blima means flower. Blanca as I know it means white.
-- Helen Kon New York City, NY
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geoffrey
My wife was born in a DP camp after the war and was named Bluma after her late grandmother. When she migrated to Australia and went to school the other kids called her Bloomers so she anglicised her name to Betty.
Geoff Ackerman
Melbourne
Australia
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Marcel Apsel
Blima can be translated as Flower in English, Fleur in French, Perach, Pericha and Pircha in Hebrew. Another yiddish variant is Bluma.
Marcel Apsel Antwerpen, Belgium
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Cynthia Hollinsworth
See attached example of how Blima can indeed also be Blanka.
White in Polish is "biel " not Blanka or Blanca. Cynthia Hollinsworth
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Ilan Ganot
Hello Terry,
The name "Blimah" is a given name, not a short for another name. Alternatively this name is spelled and pronounced "Blumah" or "Blumeh". Regards, Ilan Ganot ilang12350@...
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Janet Furba
Only Bluma.
Janet Furba, Germany
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