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Miguel

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //miˈɡɛl//

A male given name from Portuguese and Spanish.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from Portuguese and Spanish.

  2. 2

    A middle name from the same sources as the given name.

Etymology

Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew מִי (mí) Biblical Hebrew כַּ־ (ka-) Proto-Semitic *ʔil- Biblical Hebrew אֵל (él) Biblical Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mīḵāʾēl)bor. Koine Greek Μῐχᾱήλ (Mĭkhāḗl)bor. Latin Michāēl Spanish Miguelbor. ▲ Latin Michāēl Old Galician-Portuguese Migael Old Galician-Portuguese Miguel Portuguese Miguelbor. English Miguel Borrowed from Spanish Miguel and Portuguese Miguel. Doublet of Michael, Michel, and Mikhail.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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