Well, it 'sounds' pretty anyway :o) In Spanish it is a derivative of 'Manuel.' I think it may derive from the name Emmanuel in Hebrew too. Of course, many languages have the same sounds but they have different meanings in each language. Update: my daughter just told me she has a friend in school whose name is Minel. The girl is 16 (sorry that was a typo earlier) and has a Turkish heritage (and she speaks 4 languages) so perhaps there is another meaning in Turkish or Arabic (as you said) for Minel?


>I know what's mean awwal. We use as "evvel", that's mean "beginning" and "before"... Than it seem minel meal "from". However it can be another mean...
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>I hope it has a another good mean. Because my wife liked that name. But in same time I cannot accept a name mean "from". That's meanless... :(
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>>I don't speak Arabic, but I thought there was a poem Minel awwal that translated into English, meant 'From the Beginning?'