Carmen

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː(ɹ)mən/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mən

From Spanish Carmen, cognate with English Carmel. Made famous outside Spain by the opera Carmen (1875) by Georges Bizet.

Carmen

1. A female given name from Spanish [from 19th c.]
   • 1914, Keith Clark, The Spell of Spain, The Page Company, published 1914, page 223:

     Not all of them looked "Spanish", but, no doubt, all of them were Spanish, even the blue-eyed, white, sylph-like creature, dressed in pale blue and white, who looked much more like a Murillo Madonna than like Carmen, but who danced like a Carmen, with a lithe, luring body entirely without stays[...]

   • 1988, Elmore Leonard, Killshot, Arbor House, published 1989, →ISBN, page 145:

     "But your Mom won," Carmen said, "and named you after a movie star. Moms get away with murder. Mine, you probably think, named me after the girl in the opera."
     "Tell you the truth," Wayne said, "I never thought about it."
     "She didn't. She named me after Guy Lombardo's brother, Carmen Lombardo, he sang with the band.

2. A town in Oklahoma.
3. An unincorporated community in Idaho.

From Italian Carmine.

Carmen

1. (dated, rare) A male given name from Italian.

• From Spanish Carmen.^[1]
• A variant of Carman.^[1]

Carmen

1. A surname.

• mancer, McNear, Camren, -mancer

From Spanish Carmen.

Carmen

1. a municipality of Cebu, Philippines
   • 2017 October 3, “Igsuon sa Mayor sa Catmon Nadakpan”, in SuperBalita Cebu:

     Gisikop ang igsuon sa mayor sa lungsod sa Carmen sa pagronda sa iyang balay sa Brgy. Flores kagahapon sa alas 6:45 sa buntag.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. a female given name from Spanish
   • 2012 — Arpilleda, Jondy, Ihangyo sa Bulalakaw (10 June), Dagmay

     “Hunahunaon sa nako, Mare. Malahi ta, Mads, kinsa nang guwapa nga naa nagpuyo sa ilang Carmen ron?” Sukit ni Pepay.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Ultimately from Spanish Carmen, from Carmelo, ultimately from Hebrew כַּרְמֶל.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑr.mən/

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• Hyphenation: Car‧men

Carmen f

1. a female given name

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ.mɛn/

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Carmen f

1. a female given name from Spanish

Carmen

1. a female given name from Spanish

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Carmen f (genitive/dative lui Carmen)

1. a female given name from Spanish

Shortened from María (del) Carmen, an epithet of the Virgin Mary at (Mount) Carmel, by folk etymology associated with Latin and Spanish carmen (“song, poem”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾmen/ [ˈkaɾ.mẽn]
• Rhymes: -aɾmen
• Syllabification: Car‧men

Carmen f

1. a female given name transferred from the place name, traditionally popular in Spain
2. the letter C in the Spanish spelling alphabet

From Spanish Carmen.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kaɾˈmen/ [kɐɾˈmɛn̪]
• Rhymes: -en
• Syllabification: Car‧men

Carmén (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜇ᜔ᜋᜒᜈ᜔)

1. a municipality of Cebu, Philippines
2. a municipality of Agusan del Norte, Philippines
3. a female given name from Spanish