Semen (name)
Gender | Male |
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Origin | |
Word/name | Vascon |
Other names | |
Related names | Jimeno, Jiménez, Jiména / Xiména |
Semen /
Additionally, the voiceless retroflex fricative variant of the name Semen is a homograph of the English word for semen, a bodily fluid secreted by the sexual organs of male or hermaphroditic animals.
A "Seguin" was attested in Frankish chronicles when referring to the Count of Bordeaux and Duke of
Arab sources in Al-Andalus report in 778 a "Jimeno, the strong", calling him "Mothmin al-Akra". He was a Basque or Hispanic magnate in the upper Ebro territories within the later independent principality of Navarre. This person was possibly related to others near Pamplona in local opposition to both the invading Franks under Charlemagne and the new ruler of the Islamic Iberian realm, Abd al-Rahman I.
Other than these early medieval examples, it is widely known on both sides of the Pyrenees in the following forms:
- Semen or Semeno fem. Semena
- Semero fem. Semera
- Scemeno (in Villabáscones)
- Xemen or Xemeno fem. Xemena
- Ximeno or Jimeno fem. Ximena or Jimena (French Chimène)
By adjunction of the patronymic suffixes
- Ximenes [ʃiˈmeneʃ]
- Spanish: Ximénez, Giménez, Jiménez [xiˈmeneθ]
Cyrillic transliteration
Semen is also a transliteration of the Ukrainian given name Семе́н and an alternate transliteration of the Russian given name Семё́н (more often transliterated as Semyon); both words (along with an etymologically cognate Ukrainian name Си́мон—Symon and an etymologically cognate Russian name Си́мон—Simon) derive from a biblical name Simeon/Symeon. Notable persons with that name include:
- Semen Altman (born 1946), Ukrainian football coach
- Semen Bogdanov(1894–1960), Soviet Marshal of the Army
- Semen L. Frank(1877–1950), religious philosopher
- Semen Hulak-Artemovsky (1813–1873), Ukrainian opera composer, singer, actor, and dramatist
- Semen Kirsanov(1906–1972), Ukrainian poet in Russia
- Semen Korsakov (1787–1853 OS), inventor who was involved with an early version of information technology
- Semen Paliy (circa 1645–1710), Ukrainian Cossack polkovnyk (colonel)
- Semen Pavlichenko (born 1991), Russian luger
- Semen Semenchenko (born 1974), Ukrainian politician, founder and former commander of Donbas Battalion
- Semen Tymoshenko(1895–1970), Soviet military commander
- Semen Zhavoronkov(1899–1967), Soviet Marshal of the Air Force
- Semen Zhivago (1807–1863), Russian painter
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