"Traditional name"
The name Nardos is commonly a female name.
Nardos is an Amharic name used for girls in Ethiopia and Eritrea, and it is also the ordinary Amharic word for spikenard, the aromatic plant and the oil prepared from it. The word is not originally Amharic: it goes back to Greek nardos, the term used for the same plant in Greek sources, which itself is borrowed from a Semitic form. Speakers of Amharic use the plant word itself as a personal name, in the same way other plant and flower words serve as names in the region.
The pronunciation of Nardos is NAR-dohs.
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