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I'm trying to decide on names for a baby girl we are expecting in August. I've heard the name 'Bryna' and it sounds pretty, although I'm unclear about the meaning and origins. What does everyone think? Is it a "real" Jewish name or something that's been adapted from another culture?
Also, we are planning to live in Israel, so would it be a name that would be accepted by Israelis. (how would you spell it in Hebrew.. for all the Israeli imamothers)
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| Posted: Sun, May 22 2011, 4:36 pm Post subject: re: "Bryna" as a name - what do you think? what do |
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It's Yiddish. Israelis would constantly wonder what it means. (And in truth, I have no idea.)
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| Posted: Sun, May 22 2011, 4:37 pm Post subject: re: "Bryna" as a name - what do you think? what do |
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| I think it is a Yiddish name that is related to Rena in Hebrew.
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| Posted: Sun, May 22 2011, 4:52 pm Post subject: re: "Bryna" as a name - what do you think? what do |
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| It's yiddish and means "brown". also spelled broine, breine, braine, breina, breindl, brendl.
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My sister and cousin are both Bryna (one first name, one middle) after my great-grandmother. She was Beatrice in English, Bryna in Hebrew. בריינא
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| Posted: Sun, May 22 2011, 10:04 pm Post subject: re: "Bryna" as a name - what do you think? what do |
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| my mother is basya breina.. and our next door neighbor interestingly is also bryna... um no clue what it means we are in the US and my neighbor is modern we are yishevish. I can ask what it means but probably people here know better.
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| Posted: Mon, May 23 2011, 12:02 am Post subject: re: "Bryna" as a name - what do you think? what do |
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I don't like yiddish names in general so wouldn't be on my list.
I always wondered why people give yiddish, instead of hebrew names?
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| Posted: Mon, May 23 2011, 12:17 am Post subject: Re: re: "Bryna" as a name - what do you think? wha |
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| amother wrote: | I don't like yiddish names in general so wouldn't be on my list.
I always wondered why people give yiddish, instead of hebrew names? |
A large population that gives yiddish names are the same that name after grandparents/aunts/ancestors instead of just choosing a name. If I'd choose names, I'd definitely go for Hebrew names, but we name after people.
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| Posted: Mon, May 23 2011, 2:09 pm Post subject: Re: re: "Bryna" as a name - what do you think? wha |
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| amother wrote: | I don't like yiddish names in general so wouldn't be on my list.
I always wondered why people give yiddish, instead of hebrew names? |
That's a very weird question. To each their culture, and to each their taste. Jews EVERYWHERE adopted and adapted names.
I prefer Yiddish names to Hebrew names.
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| I hate it.
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| chocolate moose wrote: | | I hate it. |
Me too. Don't give it for Israel.
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| life'sgreat wrote: | | amother wrote: | I don't like yiddish names in general so wouldn't be on my list.
I always wondered why people give yiddish, instead of hebrew names? |
A large population that gives yiddish names are the same that name after grandparents/aunts/ancestors instead of just choosing a name. If I'd choose names, I'd definitely go for Hebrew names, but we name after people. |
I remember learning in school that if someone has a yiddish name, you have to ask a shaila about whether you have to hebraicize it -for example for purposes of saying your passuk (one before yehi ratzon in shemone esrei. so if your name was Fayga you use tzipporah)
yiddish is just a mixture of german, hebrew, slavic and other languages.
it was just the language they used in certain countries because they thought hebrew was too holy to use for common, everyday language. in my eyes it's like naming a kid an english name, or a french name if you live in france, or giving a spanish name for spaniards--but you wouldn't call those people up the the torah in their english, french, spanish name. so why would you do so in yiddish? yiddish isn't a holy language.
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| Posted: Tue, May 24 2011, 9:15 pm Post subject: re: "Bryna" as a name - what do you think? what do |
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| Someone I know has the name briendy and she would always say that she would love to know what her name means. If I remember correctly she recently found out that Bryna comes from 'bren'- fire or fiery
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| Posted: Wed, May 25 2011, 10:22 am Post subject: re: "Bryna" as a name - what do you think? what do |
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Amother above, gedolim disagree.
Again Breina is brunette.
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| amother wrote: | | life'sgreat wrote: | | amother wrote: | I don't like yiddish names in general so wouldn't be on my list.
I always wondered why people give yiddish, instead of hebrew names? |
A large population that gives yiddish names are the same that name after grandparents/aunts/ancestors instead of just choosing a name. If I'd choose names, I'd definitely go for Hebrew names, but we name after people. |
I remember learning in school that if someone has a yiddish name, you have to ask a shaila about whether you have to hebraicize it -for example for purposes of saying your passuk (one before yehi ratzon in shemone esrei. so if your name was Fayga you use tzipporah)
yiddish is just a mixture of german, hebrew, slavic and other languages.
it was just the language they used in certain countries because they thought hebrew was too holy to use for common, everyday language. in my eyes it's like naming a kid an english name, or a french name if you live in france, or giving a spanish name for spaniards--but you wouldn't call those people up the the torah in their english, french, spanish name. so why would you do so in yiddish? yiddish isn't a holy language. |
There are chilukei dayos on this.
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