Irma
English edit
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Etymology edit
From German Irma in the nineteenth century. Short form of Germanic names beginning with irm(en)-, erm(en) "whole, entire", from Proto-Germanic *ermunaz. Cognate with English Emma.
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Irma
- A female given name from the Germanic languages.
- 1939, Herbert Ernest Bates, The Flying Goat, Ulverscroft Large Print Books, published 1995, →ISBN, page 52:
- - - -, she thanked God for Irma: thanked God that Irma's hair was rich and beautiful, that she had the aristocratic richness of a name like Irma and not the common poverty of a name like May or Flo;
- A village in Alberta, Canada.
- A village in Lombardy, Italy.
- An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.
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Czech edit
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Irma f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Irma
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Danish edit
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Irma
- a female given name of German origin
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Irma f
- a female given name
Estonian edit
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Irma
- a female given name of German origin
Faroese edit
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Irma f
- a female given name
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Matronymics
- son of Irma: Irmuson
- daughter of Irma: Irmudóttir
Declension edit
Singular | |
Indefinite | |
Nominative | Irma |
Accusative | Irmu |
Dative | Irmu |
Genitive | Irmu |
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From German Irma in the 19th century.
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Irma
- a female given name
Declension edit
Inflection of Irma (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Irma | Irmat | ||
genitive | Irman | Irmojen | ||
partitive | Irmaa | Irmoja | ||
illative | Irmaan | Irmoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Irma | Irmat | ||
accusative | nom. | Irma | Irmat | |
gen. | Irman | |||
genitive | Irman | Irmojen Irmainrare | ||
partitive | Irmaa | Irmoja | ||
inessive | Irmassa | Irmoissa | ||
elative | Irmasta | Irmoista | ||
illative | Irmaan | Irmoihin | ||
adessive | Irmalla | Irmoilla | ||
ablative | Irmalta | Irmoilta | ||
allative | Irmalle | Irmoille | ||
essive | Irmana | Irmoina | ||
translative | Irmaksi | Irmoiksi | ||
abessive | Irmatta | Irmoitta | ||
instructive | — | Irmoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Statistics edit
- Irma is the 78th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 9,746 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,087 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
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Irma f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Irma
German edit
Etymology edit
Short form of female compound given names beginning with the Germanic element irm(en)-, erm(en) "whole, entire". Made popular through nineteenth century German fiction.
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Audio (file)
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Irma
- a female given name
- 1865 Berthold Auerbach, Auf der Hohe (translated as On the Heights by Simon Adler Stern):
- Die Angst gewann die Uebermacht, und wie ein Hülfeschrei aus der Tiefe rang sich von die Lippen der Königin der Ruf los: "Irma! Irma!" und Irma! Irma! tönte es wieder und wieder von den Bergen. Die weite Welt ringsum rief den Namen Irma...
- Fear gained the mastery and, with a wailing shriek for help, she cried out: "Irma! Irma!" and "Irma, Irma" was echoed again and again from the mountains. The whole world was shouting Irma's name.
- 1865 Berthold Auerbach, Auf der Hohe (translated as On the Heights by Simon Adler Stern):
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Latvian edit
Etymology edit
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1888. From German Irma.
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Irma f
- a female given name
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Lithuanian edit
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Irma f
- a female given name
Slovak edit
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Irma f (genitive singular Irmy, nominative plural Irmy, declension pattern of žena)
- a female given name
Declension edit
Declension of Irma
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Further reading edit
- “Irma”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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Irma f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Irma
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From German Irma. First recorded in Sweden in 1868.
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Audio (file)
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Irma c (genitive Irmas)
- a female given name