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Dora (Greek: Δώρα) is a female name of Greek origin, being a shortened form or derived from Dorothea (Dorothy) and Theodora (masculine Theodore), meaning "gift" or in its full form "god's gift", from δῶρον, doron, "gift" + θεός, theos, "god". The name Dora can also be a short form of Isadora (Isidora). Doreen, Dorian, and Dorinda are other examples of names from the same root form.

The earliest form of the word doron is the Mycenaean Greek 𐀈𐀨, dora, meaning "gifts", written in the Linear B syllabic script, but it is not an anthroponym, it is only the plural (δῶρα) of said word; on the other hand, the names Theodora and Amphidora are attested in Linear B as 𐀳𐀃𐀈𐀨, te-o-do-ra, and 𐀀𐀠𐀈𐀨, a-pi-do-ra, respectively. The masculine counterpart of the latter, i.e. Amphidoros, is also found: 𐀀𐀠𐀈𐀫, a-pi-do-ro.

In Albanian, dora means "hand". In Russian, Dora can be a diminutive of the male first name Agafodor.

People

Dora Altmann (1881–1971), German actress
Dora Annie Dickens (1850–1851), infant daughter of English novelist Charles Dickens
Dora Anastasiou (born 1988), Cypriot beauty queen
Dora Bakoyannis (born 1954), Greek politician
Dora Barrancos (born 1940), Argentine academic and politician
Dora Beedham née Spong (1879–1969), British nurse and suffragette
Dora Bryan (1923–2014), British actress
Dora Carrington (1893–1932), British painter
Dora Erway (1889–1976), American artist and home economist
Dora Gabe (1886–1983), Bulgarian Jewish poet
Dora Greenwell (1821–1882), English poet
Dora Hand (c. 1844–1878), American dance hall singer in Dodge City, Kansas
Dora d'Istria (1828–1888), Romanian-Albanian writer
Dora Herbert Jones (1890–1974), Welsh administrator and singer
Dora Justiniano de la Rocha (1925–2016), Bolivian linguist, educator and poet
Dora Kalaus (born 1996), Croatian handball player
Dora Khayatt (1912–1986), Egyptian-born American painter
Dora Krsnik (born 1992), Croatian handball player
Dora Kyriakou (born 1967), Cypriot sprinter
Dora Lewis (1862–1928), American suffragist
Dora Maar (1907–1997), French model and photographer
Dora Richards Miller, (1842–1914), Danish West Indies-born American author and educator
Dora Mavor Moore (1888–1979), Canadian actress
Dora Montefiore (1851–1933), English-Australian suffragist, socialist
Dora Musielak, Mexican-American aerospace engineer, historian of mathematics, and book author
Dora Moono Nyambe (1992–2024), Zambian humanitarian and TikToker
Dora Pavel (born 1946), Romanian novelist
Dora Pejačević (1885–1923), Croatian composer
Dora Puelma (1898–1972), Chilean artist
Dora Knowlton Ranous (1859–1916), American actress, author
Dora Ratjen, birth name of Heinrich Ratjen (1918–2008), German high jumper who competed as a woman in the 1936 Olympics, but was later found to be male and/or intersex
Dora Richter (1892–1966), German transgender woman and the first known person to undergo complete male-to-female gender-affirming surgery
Dora Rosetti (1908–1989), Greek doctor and writer
Dora Russell (1894–1986), British author
Dora Isella Russell (1925–1990) Uruguayan poet, journalist
Dora Adele Shoemaker (1873–1962), American educator, writer
Dora Stratou (1903–1988), Greek dancer and folklorist
Dora Varella (born 2001), Brazilian skateboarder
Dora V. Wheelock (1847–1923), American activist and writer

Fictional characters

Dora the Explorer (character), protagonist of the Dora the Explorer franchise
Dora the Female Explorer, eponymous subject of a song on the 1971 album Stackridge
Dora Bianchi, in the webcomic Questionable Content
Dora Orefice, in the Life Is Beautiful movie
Dora Winifred "D.W." Read, in the Arthur book and television series
Dora Spenlow, in the Dickens novel David Copperfield

References

Notes

^ Campbell, Mike (16 November 2019). "Meaning, origin and history of the name Doreen". Behind the Name. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
Campbell, Mike (25 April 2021). "Meaning, origin and history of the name Dora". Behind the Name. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
δῶρον. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.
θεός in Liddell and Scott.
"The Linear B word do-ra". Palaeolexicon. Word study tool of ancient languages. Raymoure, K.A. "do-ra-qe". Minoan Linear A & Mycenaean Linear B. Deaditerranean.
"te-o-do-ra-qe". Raymoure, K.A. "a-pi-do-ra". Minoan Linear A & Mycenaean Linear B. Deaditerranean.
Superanskaya, p. 24

Sources

А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Современный словарь личных имён: Сравнение. Происхождение. Написание" (Modern Dictionary of First Names: Comparison. Origins. Spelling). Айрис-пресс. Москва, 2005. ISBN 5-8112-1399-9

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