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Omid (name)

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Omid
GenderMale
Origin
Word/namePersian
Other names
Alternative spellingOmeed or Umeed or Ümit (Turkish equivalent)

Omid (Persian: اُمید), also transliterated as Omeed, Umeed or Ümit (Turkish equivalent), is a common Persian and Kurdish male given name, meaning hope.[1][2]

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Other uses

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  • Omid, first Iranian-launched satellite, launched on February 2, 2009
  • "Omid", an electronic database of human rights violations in Iran, acting as a memorial to the victims executed by the Islamic Republic since it was established in 1979.[3]
  • "Omid", a song on Thievery Corporation's album The Richest Man in Babylon
  • Apache Omid, an open source transaction processing system for Apache HBase[4][5]
  • M. Omid, pen name of Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, notable contemporary Iranian poet

References

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  1. ^ "Human Rights & Democracy for Iran". Human Rights & Democracy for Iran. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  2. ^ "Voices on Antisemitism Interview with Ladan Boroumand". Ushmm.org. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  3. ^ "Human Rights & Democracy for Iran". Human Rights & Democracy for Iran. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  4. ^ "Apache Omid – What is Omid?". Omid.incubator.apache.org. Retrieved 2016-12-02.
  5. ^ "Introducing Omid - Transaction Processing for Apache HBase". Hadoop at Yahoo. Retrieved 5 February 2019.