Omid (name)
Gender | Male |
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Origin | |
Word/name | Persian |
Other names | |
Alternative spelling | Omeed or Umeed or Ümit (Turkish equivalent) |
Omid (Persian: اُمید), also transliterated as Omeed, Umeed or Ümit (Turkish equivalent), is a common Persian and Kurdish male given name, meaning hope.[1][2]
Given name
[edit]- Omid Abolhassani, Iranian football player banned for four years
- Omid Abtahi, Iranian-American actor
- Omid Djalili, Iranian-British stand-up comedian and actor
- Omid Ebrahimi, Iranian footballer
- Omid Kordestani, Iranian-American Google executive
- Omid Memarian, Iranian journalist and social activist
- Omid Namazi, Iranian-American soccer player
- Omid Nouripour, German-Iranian politician
- Omid Rahimi, American anatomist
- Omid Ravankhah, Iranian footballer
- Omid Safi, American religion academic
- Omid Scobie, British journalist and writer
- Omid Tahvili, Iranian-Canadian criminal
- Omid Walizadeh, American underground hip hop producer
Surname
[edit]- Ghazal Omid, Iranian-Canadian author
- Pierre Omidyar, French-born American entrepreneur and the founder of eBay
Other uses
[edit]- Omid, first Iranian-launched satellite, launched on February 2, 2009
- "Omid", an electronic database of human rights violations in Iran, acting as a memorial to the victims executed by the Islamic Republic since it was established in 1979.[3]
- "Omid", a song on Thievery Corporation's album The Richest Man in Babylon
- Apache Omid, an open source transaction processing system for Apache HBase[4][5]
- M. Omid, pen name of Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, notable contemporary Iranian poet
References
[edit]- ^ "Human Rights & Democracy for Iran". Human Rights & Democracy for Iran. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ "Voices on Antisemitism Interview with Ladan Boroumand". Ushmm.org. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ "Human Rights & Democracy for Iran". Human Rights & Democracy for Iran. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ "Apache Omid – What is Omid?". Omid.incubator.apache.org. Retrieved 2016-12-02.
- ^ "Introducing Omid - Transaction Processing for Apache HBase". Hadoop at Yahoo. Retrieved 5 February 2019.