Orlanda
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- [ or-LAHN-dah ]
- Italian
Feminine form of ORLANDO.
 | ORLANDO male Italian Italian form of ROLAND. A city in Florida bears this name, as does a character in Shakespeare's play 'As You like It' (1599). | |||||||||||||||||||
| ROLAND male English, French, German, Swedish, Dutch, Hungarian, Medieval French From the Germanic elements hrod meaning "fame" and land meaning "land", though some theories hold that the second element was originally nand meaning "brave". Roland was a semi-legendary French hero whose story is told in the medieval epic 'La Chanson de Roland', in which he is a nephew of Charlemagne killed in battle with the Saracens. The Normans introduced this name to England. | |||||||||||||||||||
| EQUIVALENTS |
| FRENCH: Rolande |
| MASCULINE FORMS |
| ANCIENT GERMANIC: Hrodland |
| DUTCH: Roel, Roeland, Roland |
| ENGLISH: Roland, Rolland, Roly, Rowland, Rowley |
| FRENCH: Roland |
| GERMAN: Roland |
| HUNGARIAN: Loránd, Lóránt, Roland |
| ITALIAN: Orlando, Rolando |
| MEDIEVAL FRENCH: Roland |
| PORTUGUESE: Rolando, Roldão |
| RUSSIAN: Rolan |
| SPANISH: Rolando, Roldán |
| SWEDISH: Roland |
| OTHER FORMS |
| ANCIENT GERMANIC: Hruodnand |