Name Meanings

[Ever Faith]

Please don't kill me or anything but I am courious about alot of the character names. And what they mean. I remember some topics have the names when disscusing the character but I want to know about them all. Such as Revan, Malak, Sion and Nihilis.

 

If theards a thread like this I didn't see, please link to it.

[Sabahattin Dere]

there isn't a spesific thread but people have been speculating (making educated guesses rather) about these names on all sorts of threads until a while ago. I wrote a couple of things myself but I'm too lazy to repeat it here.

 

Searching could help but I know it's too toilsome....anyway...It was the forum member Maria Caliban whp wrote an interesting post on the names 'Revan' and 'Malak'.

 

an Italian guy said that 'Palpatine' means to grab -but with sexual connotations- in Italian

 

a 'Malak' in turkish is a buffalo calf, by the way.

[Maedhros]

Bastila is a bird, I remember reading.

[Craftsman]

It would be cool if your name could be spoken in KOTOR 2.

[Darth Ni]

Your name was spoken in KotOR just never in Basic only in Ithorian, Rodian (w/e thier language is) etc.

 

Anyways, it is fairly easy to get the computer to prononuce the word but it may be prononuced wrong and ofcourse, the voice may have to be changed. It adds too many complications but, it would be a cool feature nevertheless.

[jaguars4ever]

Bastila is a bird, I remember reading.

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Really? I always thought she was a bloke. ^_^

[Rosbjerg]

actually Malak means angel in Arabic ..

 

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well Sion is close to the word Zion

(from Wikipedia)

Zion or Tzion (ציון "Height", Standard Hebrew Ẓiyyon, Tiberian Hebrew Ṣiyy

[Rosbjerg]

and bear in mind these are just guesses ..

 

and Juhani is a finnish name from John .. (its actually a boys name)

and John comes from hebrew Yochanan which means "Yahweh is gracious" ..

 

according to an website I found .. Carth originates from swedish which means "Earth" .. but I'm not familiar with that word (I'm from Denmark neighbour to Sweden)

 

maybe Revan comes from Revamp .. which means "to do again" or "patch up" ?

 

And Jolee could be from Jolie which means "pretty" in french! or from hebrew Jael which means "mountain goat" (more likely) hehe

 

and candorous is probalby from candour which means sincerity ..

 

and Saul is a Hebrew name, Sha'ul which meant "asked for" or "prayed for.

and karath could be derived from Arabic khayra meaning "good deed".

so his name would be "praying for good deeds" or something ?

 

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If I think of anything else I will post .. or tell me to shut up if I'm totally wrong! :D

 

- Rosbjerg

[Darth Desann]

Actually Malaika is angel in arabic...

[Rosbjerg]

Actually Malaika is angel in arabic...

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you can also use the word Malak .. at least according to my arabic source ..

[Zach Morris]

In Hebrew Malak could be used for the angel or messenger.

[Craftsman]

Anyone over went with the random names in the game?

[sstep]

Anyone over went with the random names in the game?

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all the time.i have no imagination when it comes to naming my characters. :ph34r:

[Craftsman]

Some of them were so random. But i guess thats the point

[sstep]

Some of them were so random. But i guess thats the point

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and,boy do i need it.

[Craftsman]

Theres bound to be a name that when entered opens up a easter egg or something

[sstep]

Theres bound to be a name that when entered opens up a easter egg or something

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maybe.

[Blarghagh]

and candorous is probalby from candour which means sincerity ..

 

I doubt it. Canderous was probably just used because it sounded cool. It was used before, in Baldur's Gate. One of the 'training room characters' was named Canderous.

[Craftsman]

A name just has to sound good/bad. People jsut add meanings so they can feel special

[Blarghagh]

Still, reading too much into it often makes you like something better(or worse). It makes you feel like there's more depth to it. A friend of mine, who is a filmmaker, once said 'the more meanings people take from it, the better it is.'

[Darth Arachne]

Bastila is a bird, I remember reading.

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I always thought Bastila was from "Bastille", the infamous French prison.

The only name meaning I can think of that hasn

[Barzarel]

Bastila is a bird, I remember reading.

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I always thought Bastila was from "Bastille", the infamous French prison.

The only name meaning I can think of that hasn

[Tel Aviv]

I think revamp really is clutching at straws. :D

 

Revenant sounds the most plausible.

[Marid Bakhtavar]

There's gotta be some evil connotation to the name Malak.

I've also heard that name used in Stargate SG-1 for a Gould warlord and recently in Star Trek: Enterprise for the leader of the genetically engineered humans.

[Darth Arachne]

There's gotta be some evil connotation to the name Malak.

I've also heard that name used in Stargate SG-1 for a Gould warlord and recently in Star Trek: Enterprise for the leader of the genetically engineered humans.

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The only meaning I can think of is "angel" - the already mentioned Hebrew translation. Funny, isn