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Pronunciation | /ˈvɪərə,ˈvɛrə/ |
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Gender | Female |
Origin | |
Word/name | Slavic |
Meaning | "Faith" |
Region of origin | Europe |
Other names | |
Nickname(s) | Věrka, Věrča, Věruška |
Popularity | see popular names |
Vera (Cyrillic : Вера: Véra, "faith") is a female given name of Slavic origin. In Slavic languages, Vera means faith. [1] The name Vera has been used in the English speaking world since the 19th century and was popular in the early 20th century. [2] In Turkish Vera means piety. [3] It is usually a feminine name. In the Russian language, Vera may also be a diminutive of the male first names Avenir and Averky.[ citation needed ]
Cyrillic script: Вера (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian)
Diminutives: Verica (Serbian and Croatian), Verka or Vierka (Slovakian), Verka, Verochka, Verunya, Verushka (Russian).
Other languages: Véra (French), Věra (Czech), Veera (Finnish), Wiera (Polish), Ukrainian : Віра, romanized: Vira, Viera (Slovak), فيرا (Arabic)
In the Ancient Greek Christian faith, Saint Fides (Faith or Vera), her sisters Spes (Hope) and Caritas (Love) (saints Faith, Hope and Charity) and their mother Sophia (Wisdom), died as martyrs in the second century AD during the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire under the emperor Hadrian.[ citation needed ] The names are also the words designating the three key Christian virtues mentioned in Apostle Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 13:13). Thus the name Vera entered the Russian culture as part of the trio: Vera, Nadezhda, and Lyubov as a calque from Greek of the names of saints.