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Saule
SOW-leh
ˈsaʊlɛListen
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Saule
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Kazakh (Kazakhstan)
- Meaning
- a Kazakh feminine name meaning sunshine, sunray, or beam of sunlight, from the Kazakh and Turkic saule (sunbeam, ray of light); in Kazakh mythology Saule is the goddess of the sun and the patroness of the hearth, fertility, and family happiness — a pre-Islamic solar deity whose cult was important in traditional Kazakh shamanism before and alongside the adoption of Islam; as a given name Saule evokes the warmth, brightness, and life-giving power of the sun, and placing the name on a daughter declares her to be the family's sunshine, their source of light and warmth; solar feminine names are common across Turkic languages — Güneş in Turkish, Kun in Uzbek — reflecting the importance of sun worship in pre-Islamic Turkic religious life that survived in folk naming traditions after Islamisation; Saule is one of the most common and beloved feminine names in Kazakhstan
- Gender
- female
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