View Message

[Facts] Mirsada
I did a quick search, and came up with the meaning of peace now for the name. I'm curious as to whether the meaning is legit, and if it is, the history of the name's usage. It's female, and Bosnian.

Baptists have one consistent record concerning liberty throughout all their long and eventful history. They have never been a party to oppression of conscience. They have forever been the unwavering champions of liberty, both religious and civil.
- George W. Truett 1920
vote up1vote down

Replies

"sada" does seem to mean "now" in Serbo-Croatian:
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/translation/sada
but not in other Slavic languages, and it would surprise me if I had to look at the female name form to find root words.With the male form Mirsad on the other hand we get "sad" which means "garden, plantation" in pretty much every Slavic language:
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/translation/sad
and therefore could be a very old word, used as a root word for a name.I could not confirm this alternative theory, however.
vote up1vote down
My question on this is...is could Mirsada be a recent name created in Bosnia, during the war? It does make a bit of sense.
vote up1vote down
No, the name has not been created in the last war, as my mothers name is Mirsada and she's 45.
Its just the female name of Mirsad, which is a muslim name, used somewhere in the Koran, if I'm not mistaken. It's been around for ages.
vote up1vote down
Interesting, because if Mirsad is in the Koran, it can't be a Slavic name as assumed so far.I could not find it in the Koran, however. I tried here:
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/koran/simple.html
vote up1vote down
That sounds like it could be right, since "mir" is a Slavic element meaning "peace".
vote up1vote down