Ayala- what meaning for a deer?

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chagil

Wed, Jan 24 2018, 9:01 am

I like the aname Ayala, but why name your child a deer?! Any idea of meaning?

thanks

Wed, Jan 24 2018, 9:15 am

Swift with grace.

essie14

Wed, Jan 24 2018, 9:19 am

http://www.shemli.co.il/hebnam.....32662

Chloe

Wed, Jan 24 2018, 11:48 am

I guess it's same thing as naming your son Tzvi.
It's graceful. Strong yet tame.

bigsis144

Wed, Jan 24 2018, 11:55 am

Rachel means sheep
Devora means bee
Tzippora means bird
Tamar means date tree

I’m just giving accepted Tanach names...

amother

Black

Wed, Jan 24 2018, 11:57 am

I heard something about the Ayal davening for its friends and taking care of them first, before itself

Also from tehillim, K'ayal taarog... a mashal of our neshama's yearning for Hashem

amother

Olive

Wed, Jan 24 2018, 1:16 pm

It’s a gazelle

Does that sound better Smile

tovasara

Wed, Jan 24 2018, 2:34 pm

Yes, agree, it's like Tzvi. Come to think of it, why not ask about the name Chaya.

unexpected

Wed, Jan 24 2018, 2:37 pm

a deer is a very aidel animal. Some ppl feel that it imbues the child with aidelkeit

allthingsblue

Wed, Jan 24 2018, 2:44 pm

tovasara wrote:

Yes, agree, it's like Tzvi. Come to think of it, why not ask about the name Chaya.

Or Miriam.

amother

Cerise

Wed, Jan 24 2018, 2:46 pm

allthingsblue wrote:

Or Miriam.

Miriam is a type of animal?

allthingsblue

Wed, Jan 24 2018, 2:47 pm

amother wrote:

Miriam is a type of animal?

No but its meaning is not exactly the rosiest. People use it anyway.

amother

Maroon

Wed, Jan 24 2018, 3:00 pm

Yael means a mountain goat.

amother

Smokey

Wed, Jan 24 2018, 3:10 pm

I also love how Ayala sounds, but not the meaning. But this is exactly why I don't use animal names. Or names with other meanings that don't seem relevant to a child. But that's just me personally, people have many reasons for using all sorts of names - they like the sounds, they like the person their naming after, they like a pasuk, they like how it relates to some concept or midah or whatever. A name has as much meaning as you give it.

salt

Thu, Jan 25 2018, 1:39 am

Out of all the animal names that exist as names for people, deer is quite a nice one I think.
Better than Dov, Devora, Ze'ev. Although all animals have their good qualities.

Ayala, or the masculine Ayil, also reminds me of Akeidat Yitzchak, and the ram that was caught in the thicket, it reminds me of Rosh Hashanah and the Shofar, and the geula.
Although strictly speaking, I think an Ayil is a ram, which is not a male deer, but it sounds the same.

etky

Thu, Jan 25 2018, 1:19 pm

salt wrote:

Yes, Ayil is a ram. The female sheep (ewe?) is kivsah.
Ayal is a male deer or whatever that's called in English (too lazy to look it up now embarrassed

) and Ayala is the female of the species.

amother

Cyan

Wed, Aug 02 2023, 11:18 am

etky wrote:

Yes, Ayil is a ram. The female sheep (ewe?) is kivsah.
Ayal is a male deer or whatever that's called in English (too lazy to look it up now embarrassed

) and Ayala is the female of the species.

Ayil is a ram
Eyal is the male version of Ayala (in the Passsuk "k'ayal ta'arog" the Nikkud is vhanged because of the Kaf that comes as a preface)

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