Mid-17th century. Equivalent to name + sake. From the phrase "for (one's) name's sake", first found in Bible translations as a rendering of a Hebrew idiom meaning "to protect one's reputation" or possibly "vouched for by one's reputation." A familiar example is in Psalm 23:3, "he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake" (King James Bible, 1604).
namesake (plural namesakes)
- (originally) One who is named after another or for whom another is named.
- Synonym: eponym
2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 493:It is the only citation from 1902, and was clearly added to the manuscript at a late stage, being only one of two examples of the dictionary’s namesake actually discovered by Crooke.
- (by extension) A ship or a building that is named after someone or something.
- A person with the same name as another.
person, place or thing named after another person, place or thing
person with the same name as another
- Albanian: adash (sq) m
- Arabic: سَمِيّ m (samiyy), سَمِيَّة f (samiyya)
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܒܪ ܫܡܐ m (bar šəmā), ܒܥܠ ܫܡܐ m (bəʿel šəmā), ܒܥܠܬ ܫܡܐ f (baʿlaṯ šəmā)
- Armenian: անվանակից (hy) (anvanakicʻ)
- Azerbaijani: adaş (az)
- Bashkir: аҙаш (aźaş)
- Belarusian: цёзка m or f (cjózka), аднафамі́лец m (adnafamíljec) (the same surname), аднафамі́ліца f (adnafamílica)
- Bikol Central: tokayo
- Bulgarian: съи́менник (bg) m (sǎímennik), съи́менничка f (sǎímennička), ада́ш m (adáš) (colloquial)
- Catalan: homònim (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 同名者 (tóngmíngzhě), 同名的人 (tóngmíng de rén)
- Czech: jmenovec (cs) m, jmenovkyně f
- Danish: navnefælle c, navne c (archaic), navnebroder c/navnebror c (male), navnesøster c (female)
- Dutch: naamgenoot (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: samnomulo
- Estonian: nimekaim
- Faroese: navni m, navna f
- Finnish: kaima (fi)
- French: homonyme (fr) m
- German: Namensvetter (de) m
- Hindi: हमनाम m (hamnām)
- Hungarian: névrokon (hu), drusza (hu)
- Italian: omonimo (it) m
- Japanese: 同名異人 (ja) (どうめいいじん, dōmei ijin), 同姓同名 (dōseidōmei)
- Kazakh: адас (adas), аттас (attas)
- Khalaj: adaş
- Korean: 동명인 (ko) (dongmyeong'in)
- Kyrgyz: атташ (ky) (attaş)
- Macedonian: имењак m (imenjak), имењачка f (imenjačka)
- Mongolian: амьдай (mn) (amʹdaj)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: navnebror (no) m (male); navnesøster (no) m or f, (female); navne m
- Nynorsk: namne m; namnebror m (male); namnesyster f, namnesøster f (female)
- Old Norse: nafni m, nafna f
- Ottoman Turkish: آداش (adaş)
- Persian: همنام (fa) (hamnâm)
- Polish: imiennik (pl) m, imienniczka (pl) f
- Portuguese: tocaio (pt) m, homónimo (pt) m (Portugal), homônimo (pt) m (Brazil), xará (pt) m or f (Brazil)
- Romanian: tiz (ro) m
- Russian: тёзка (ru) m or f (tjózka), однофами́лец (ru) m (odnofamílec) (the same surname), однофами́лица (ru) f (odnofamílica)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: и̏мења̄к m, презимѐња̄к m
- Roman: ȉmenjāk (sh) m, prezimènjāk (sh) m
- Slovak: menovec m, menovkyňa f
- Slovene: soimenjak m, soimenjakinja f
- Spanish: tocayo (es) m, tocaya f, homónimo (es) m, homónima (es) f, colombroño (es) m
- Swedish: namne (sv)
- Tajik: ҳамном (hamnom), ҳамфамилия (hamfamiliya) (the same surname)
- Tatar: адаш (tt) (adaş)
- Tofa: шооза (şooza)
- Turkish: adaş (tr)
- Turkmen: adaş
- Tuvan: атташ (attaş)
- Ukrainian: тезко́ m (tezkó), те́зка f (tézka), однофамі́льник m (odnofamílʹnyk) (the same surname), однофамі́льниця f (odnofamílʹnycja)
- Urdu: ہمنام m (hamnām)
- Uzbek: adash (uz)
- Vietnamese: người trùng tên
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namesake (third-person singular simple present namesakes, present participle namesaking, simple past and past participle namesaked)
- (transitive) To name (somebody) after somebody else.