Carme | |
Pronunciation: | EN: kär'mē; CAT: kär'mā; GAL: kär'mē. |
Gender: | female |
Meaning: | "garden" and "harvester" |
Region: | Spain, English-speaking countries |
Origin: | Hebrew and Greek, respectively |
Related Names: | Carmelita, Carmelito, Carmelina, Carmelino, Carmella, Carmela, Carmelo, Carmel, Carmen, Carmina, Carmine, Carmo |
Footnotes: | The "garden" origin is from Hebrew karmel; the "harvester" origin is from Greek Karmē; the two origins are unrelated |
Carme is a feminine given name of two separate origins. The first is a Galician and Catalan form of Hebrew karmel, "garden". The second is from Greek Karmē, whose name means "she who cuts the grain", from keirein, "to cut".