DORCAS

[`dɔːkəs]

название английского женского благотворительного общества для снабжения бедных одеждой

Dorcas: translation

Dorcas f

English: from Greek dorkas doe, gazelle. It does not actually seem to have been used as a personal name by the ancient Greeks, but is offered in the Bible as an ‘interpretation’ of the Aramaic name TABITHA (SEE Tabitha) (Acts 9: 36), and was taken up by the early Christians. It was much used among the Puritans in the 16th century, and has remained in occasional use ever since. In Scotland it has been used as an Anglicized form of DEÒIRIDH (SEE Deòiridh).

1. (женское имя)

1) Доркас

2) библ. Серна

2. 1) английское женское благотворительное общество для снабжения бедных одеждой (часто Dorcas society)

2) собрание благотворительного общества [см. 2, 1)]

Dorcas: translation

   A female antelope, or gazelle, a pious Christian widow at Joppa whom Peter restored to life (Acts 9:36-41). She was a Hellenistic Jewess, called Tabitha by the Jews and Dorcas by the Greeks.

Dorcas [ˊdɔ:kəs] n

До́ркас (английское женское благотворительное общество для снабжения бедных одеждой; тж. Dorcas Society)