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Hawkeye_a · Mar 30, 2008, 02:10 PM

My parent's new house is almost ready and they have'nt picked a name for it yet. They are thinking of giving it a Hebrew name, but none of us are familiar with the language.I know this request is kinda specific but some help would be appreciated as i am really having a hard time finding anything. I was wondering if i could get some suggestions from you guys here.

The name has to either be:
1- a Hebrew name that people name their houses (im assuming in Israel).
2- be a phonetically good sounding Hebrew word with good meaning behind it. For example, in english the words would be akin to 'home', 'providence', etc...

If you could post the word in hebrew(hebrew characters), its phonetical description in english characters and its meaning we'd really appreciate it. The more suggestions the better, so go nuts.

Cheers

gradient · Mar 30, 2008, 02:19 PM

Wow, I had no idea that people named their houses. Neat.

BlueSky · Mar 30, 2008, 02:29 PM

My house's name is Steve.

OwlBoy · Mar 30, 2008, 02:35 PM

Ohh is this like naming your Mac via naming it's hard drive? Do you hang up a sign over the door?

-Owl

BigBadWolf · Mar 30, 2008, 02:43 PM

Unless you're living in a Newport, RI "cottage," your house doesn't need a name.

Hawkeye_a · Mar 30, 2008, 02:45 PM

Well i honestly dont know if its common practice, but it's sort of a tradition in my family to give the house a name during the house warming/blessing. And yeah it's usually put on a plaq near the main entrance and used in the formal address as well.

I think it's kinda cool, and gives the place some "personality".

BlueSky · Mar 30, 2008, 02:56 PM

There's a house named "Wuthering Heights" around here. Once in a while I'll see a house with a name.

Uncle Skeleton · Mar 30, 2008, 03:17 PM

Beth!

ort888 · Mar 30, 2008, 03:21 PM

Name it after this guy...

Shaddim · Mar 30, 2008, 03:55 PM

How about just Bet Shalom?

subego · Mar 30, 2008, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by OwlBoy

Ohh is this like naming your Mac via naming it's hard drive? Do you hang up a sign over the door?

-Owl

That's just half the fun. You get to name the computer itself too if you want. It's in the sharing preferences.

This computer I'm on right here is named Mimi, the SO's is Betty, and my AppleTV is named Koala. I also have a Lisa, a Minnie and a Little Blue, and have previously had a Grendel and a Gemini.

My hard drives are name...

Ow! Why did you just hit me? Stop! OW!

Chuckit · Mar 30, 2008, 04:51 PM

Originally Posted by ort888

Name it after this guy...

Gregory isn't a Hebrew name.

ghporter · Mar 30, 2008, 06:09 PM

My house is named "Fluffy" for the gargoyle/dragon that sits on the gable peak over the front porch. Gotta have a gargoyle, and a dragon type gargoyle is a great one to have.

Here's Fluffy, but not on my house:

k squared · Mar 30, 2008, 08:06 PM

My house is named "verde amarela" for its green/yellow paint scheme. I also have lived in a house called "The Lemon" because it had so many problems.

peeb · Mar 30, 2008, 08:36 PM

Originally Posted by ghporter

My house is named "Fluffy" for the gargoyle/dragon that sits on the gable peak over the front porch. Gotta have a gargoyle, and a dragon type gargoyle is a great one to have.

Here's Fluffy, but not on my house:

Sorry to be picky, but isn't having a gargoyle on the peak kind of pointless?

ghporter · Mar 30, 2008, 08:50 PM

Originally Posted by peeb

Sorry to be picky, but isn't having a gargoyle on the peak kind of pointless?

Not when it's just decoration. Which is what ours is. A really functional gargoyle would of course have gone elsewhere.

turtle777 · Mar 30, 2008, 08:51 PM

Originally Posted by peeb

Sorry to be picky, but isn't having a gargoyle on the peak kind of pointless?

Not if it's a chimera

-t

Lateralus · Mar 30, 2008, 08:52 PM

Name it Samuel L. Jackson.

BRussell · Mar 30, 2008, 09:05 PM

I don't know much Hebrew. Shlomo? Putz? Schlep? Or is that yiddish?

alligator · Mar 30, 2008, 09:11 PM

This reminds me of Anne of Green Gables, my wife's favorite movie.

Goldfinger · Mar 31, 2008, 04:59 AM

Why do you want Hebrew if you don't even understand the language ? That's like people getting those chinese character tatoos without understanding chinese. Anyway, a lot of houses have names here. Our house is called Vert Logis, we didn't give it though. The name probably comes from the Ivy that has always been on the house's walls. It's a house from the 1930s.

moonmonkey · Mar 31, 2008, 05:08 AM

Shalom in the home?

subego · Mar 31, 2008, 05:20 AM

Originally Posted by Goldfinger

Why do you want Hebrew if you don't even understand the language ?

Kinda what I was thinking.

That being said, the only Hebrew I know other than shalom roughly translates to "up your mother's naughty bits with worms".

I think there's a "rotten" in there too, but I forget whether it's your mother, her naughty bits or the worms that get qualified.

Hawkeye_a · Mar 31, 2008, 08:05 AM

Well it's kinda hard to explain why they want it. The house's architecture has Portuguese style architecture, the colony of villas has an Irish name.... and we're Catholic. Most of our relative in the area have very english and latin sounding names for their houses, so my folks, who are kinda religious(Catholic) decided to consider Hebrew names. If all fails we will probably go with latin or celtic names, but want to consider Hebrew as well.

We though of 'Shalom', but it's like.... too shallow a name. its like learning one from from another language and just going with it. So yeah...lets skip shalom, yiddish, yamulka, Hanukah, etc

...

Cheers

Mrjinglesusa · Mar 31, 2008, 08:10 AM

First I have ever heard of people naming their houses.

ghporter · Mar 31, 2008, 05:33 PM

L'chaim! (I probably didn't get anywhere near a good spelling for it). "To Life!" is a great toast and a great sentiment for a home.

Doofy · Mar 31, 2008, 06:00 PM

Beware of pranksters suggesting stuff and telling you it means one thing whilst actually meaning another. Pretty sure I remember hearing about a bloke who did it with the Chinese tattoos and ended up having the Chinese for malechickensucker permanently etched on his back.

Oh. And everyone who's anyone names their house.

Railroader · Mar 31, 2008, 07:03 PM

"Batach" (baw-takh') = Trust
Trust - to hie for refuge; figuratively, to trust, be confident or sure -- be bold (confident, secure, sure), careless (one, woman), put confidence, (make to) hope, (put, make to) trust.

ghporter · Mar 31, 2008, 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by Doofy

Beware of pranksters suggesting stuff and telling you it means one thing whilst actually meaning another. Pretty sure I remember hearing about a bloke who did it with the Chinese tattoos and ended up having the Chinese for malechickensucker permanently etched on his back.

Oh. And everyone who's anyone names their house.

I was always very wary of such tattoos. "They told me it means 'lucky devil', and they were all smiles when they did it." Yeah-smiling at the European who has "monkey butt" across his right shoulder. I'd smile too. Here's why: One of my supervisors early in my career had been stationed in Thailand during Vietnam. He said the bar girls were savvy- they'd call young GIs "dahk li" (clumsy phonetic spelling there) and the boys would think they were trying to say "darling." Nope. "Monkey butt." (Anyone who knows Thai, please step in and give a more appropriate phonetic representation of this!) So long before it became trendy to have Asian characters tattooed on one's body, I was prepared to be skeptical...

kman42 · Mar 31, 2008, 09:20 PM

Lots of Hawaiian houses have names.

cjrivera · Mar 31, 2008, 09:56 PM

"Quch je chep"

Joy and prosper.....

in Klingon.

KeriVit · Mar 31, 2008, 10:01 PM

Well, wait, what's it look like?

olePigeon · Mar 31, 2008, 11:16 PM

Name it Captain Chunk!

(Lawrence Cohen)

Railroader · Mar 31, 2008, 11:21 PM

Captain's Courageous.

ghporter · Apr 1, 2008, 07:42 AM

Originally Posted by KeriVit

Well, wait, what's it look like?

Good point. But also, what does it feel like? Is it cozy? Spacious? Inviting? Formal? Palatial? Compact?

Doofy · Apr 1, 2008, 07:53 AM

Has it got bunnies?

Hawkeye_a · Apr 1, 2008, 08:25 AM

Hell yeah it's got bunnies !

It's kinda spacious, red tile roof, white stone work, wroth-iron hand rails and fences.... big sloping roof.. lots of arches(doorways). It's quite literally on the top of a hill.

I think i should have waited till after April 1st to ask

OreoCookie · 09:14 AM

Originally Posted by Railroader

"Batach" (baw-takh') = Trust

Sounds like Klingon to me …
(Remember the Frasier episode when Frasier gave the speech at his son's Bar Mitzvah in Klingon instead of Hebrew …

)

Originally Posted by Hawkeye_a

I think i should have waited till after April 1st to ask

Yeah, otherwise you really might end up with a house with a Klingon name

angelmb · Apr 1, 2008, 11:00 AM

Originally Posted by Chuckit

Gregory isn't a Hebrew name.

neither is Eddie, huh?

Hawkeye_a · Apr 16, 2008, 08:45 AM

Name names !!!

Had to bump this thread..still open to suggestions.

Gankdawg · Apr 16, 2008, 09:04 AM

Gankdawg's House of Pain.

Uncle Skeleton · Apr 16, 2008, 10:17 AM

I'm still going to go with "Beth." In hebrew it means "house," spelled: בית ("beth" is a sloppy transliteration, but a very common one. "Bet" would be closer)
I think it's elegant.