olga
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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/ˈoʊlɡə/
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/ˈoʊlɡə/ · /ˈɒlɡə/
Definition of olga
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
name
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A female given name from Russian, Ukrainian, or Belarusian.
“Olga was named after a Russian ballerina whose picture had once appeared in a local advertisement for a ballet company that was to perform in Philadelphia during the weeks of her impending conception, and who was shown pirouetting on a point of light, impressing their mother.”
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name
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A female given name from Russian, Ukrainian, or Belarusian.
“Olga was named after a Russian ballerina whose picture had once appeared in a local advertisement for a ballet company that was to perform in Philadelphia during the weeks of her impending conception, and who was shown pirouetting on a point of light, impressing their mother.”
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A transliteration of the Russian female given name О́льга (Ólʹga).
“OLGA YOURIEVNA SOLENSKY and I followed the black-veiled nun through the chaste, white, highly polished salons of the convent while she explained to me the origin of her curious name, with which certain highly considered Russian saints had had to do. In Russia, it seems, they called her Olga, daughter of Youri.”
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Etymology
Borrowed in the 19th century from Old East Slavic О́льга (Ólĭga), name of a Kievan knyaginya (Saint Olga of Kiev), a medieval form of Helga, Old Norse heilagr (“holy; inviolable, sacred”). Doublet of Helga.
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