Irma

name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from the Germanic languages.

    "- - -, she thanked God for Irma: thanked God that Irma's hair was rich and beautiful, that she had the aristocratic richness of a name like Irma and not the common poverty of a name like May or Flo;"

  2. 2
    A village in Alberta, Canada.
  3. 3
    A village in Lombardy, Italy.
  4. 4
    An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.

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"Irma is an extremely dangerous Category 5 hurricane."

Etymology

From German Irma in the nineteenth century. Short form of Germanic names beginning with irm(en)-, erm(en) "whole, entire", from Proto-Germanic *ermunaz. Cognate with English Emma.

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