The Origin of the Name

by **reverend_kyle** on Tue Nov 14, 2006 3:11 am

vtmarik wrote:Karim, what a cool name.

It is indeed, and being from the middle east is actually i'm sure common..

I'm curious what he thinks about that ports deal from a while back beign from dubai and all.

by **Mirak** on Tue Nov 14, 2006 3:26 am

Karim means: great and generous, magnanimous, and is one of the names of God
As such most moslems revere the name and put the prefix Abdul in front of it (Abdul Karim)meaning servant of Karim(God)
I am half Persian and we do not usually add the prefix....I think it is a sunni-shiite thing..anyway it is not too common :wink:

My Enlish name is Mark so Karim Mark...Mirak

by **reverend_kyle** on Tue Nov 14, 2006 3:53 am

Mirak wrote:Karim means: great and generous, magnanimous, and is one of the names of God
As such most moslems revere the name and put the prefix Abdul in front of it (Abdul Karim)meaning servant of Karim(God)
I am half Persian and we do not usually add the prefix....I think it is a sunni-shiite thing..anyway it is not too common
My Enlish name is Mark so Karim Mark...Mirak

So the football(and basketball) players Karim abdul jabbar means servant of god jabbar?

by **Mirak** on Tue Nov 14, 2006 7:09 am

I'm not sure really

when abdul is the prefix yes but as it comes after in this case it seems to me it is Karim servant of Jabbar

I don't know what Jabbar means...some of the moslem names used by black people in the US dont follow the meanings so much as ..the "that sounds cool" philosophy maybe...

by **KoolBak** on Tue Nov 14, 2006 12:12 pm

Jabbar was a big talking shark...cartoon in the 70s or so...remember? Jabba jabba jabba, jabberjaw!

by **jay_a2j** on Tue Nov 14, 2006 12:16 pm

KoolBak wrote:Jabbar was a big talking shark...cartoon in the 70s or so...remember? Jabba jabba jabba, jabberjaw!

I remember ......

(thanks for reminding me that I'm old)

by **mr. incrediball** on Tue Nov 14, 2006 1:02 pm

mr. incredible (i think highly of myself)

with balls! (again with the highly of myself)

by **Freetymes** on Tue Nov 14, 2006 1:08 pm

I was spending all of my free time at work playing poker so I made the silly play on words and became freetyme. When I moved to a new poker site with some friends some duche that had played for 2 minutes and never returned had used my nic so I added the S...
Now I use it pretty much everywhere I need a screen name.

Not very exciting I know.

by **firth4eva** on Sat May 19, 2007 5:26 am

found this topic and thought it would be good to bring back.

i only got my name is because my surname is firth and firth4eva sounds catchy because of the aliteration

by **Great Pretender** on Sat May 19, 2007 6:38 am

I liked the name, so I stole it. :oops:

by **EvilPurpleMonkey** on Sat May 19, 2007 1:44 pm

Because, I AM A EVIL PURPLE MONKEY! :roll:

I just made it up. There is no meaning behind it.

by **Aimless** on Sat May 19, 2007 1:45 pm

Necromancy is bad, m'kay?

by **poo-maker** on Sat May 19, 2007 2:14 pm

Because,

*wait for it*

i am a poo-maker :wink:

by **DirtyDishSoap** on Sat May 19, 2007 3:14 pm

pretty sure we all make a little poo here and there...

My name is so great it doesnt need an explanation

by **dwightschrute** on Sat May 19, 2007 3:26 pm

mine name was wat came to my head wen i was making an account

by **mandalorian2298** on Sat May 19, 2007 6:49 pm

My name reflects my love for Star Wars and my respect for the great Boba Fett! Also, I am thinking about changing my nationality to Mandalorian, but I am a to lazy to acctualy do it.

by **DirtyDishSoap** on Sat May 19, 2007 6:50 pm

ive heard of star wars fanatics but your just taking this to an extreme :lol:

by **Steel Panzer** on Sat May 19, 2007 7:05 pm

"panzer" was one of the greatest tankes ever built for that period, and it sounds cool with "steel" in front of it :lol:

by **Wind Warrior** on Sat May 19, 2007 8:55 pm

well it was either this or Aishiteru Japanese for I Love You or Kaze Arashi which is Japanese for Wind Storm ( Ai - love, Kaze - Wind, Arashi - Storm, Shiteru - ???) Wind Warrior came from my obssesion with the four elements.

by **Optimus Prime** on Sat May 19, 2007 9:57 pm

Well, pretty much I'm a huge Transformers fan, and will ALWAYS be in awe of the character Optimus Prime.

by **paranoid-android** on Sat May 19, 2007 10:08 pm

my name has two different stems.

one stems from the most fantastic song written by radiohead, from the OK Computer album.

The other stems from The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, which has the character, Marvin, the paranoid android, as mkatfield showed to me.

I wrote the name mainly based off of radiohead though. Mkatfield called me Marvin in a game, and then i realized the second origin of my name.