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Misha

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈmɪʃ.ɑː//

A male given name from Russian, Ukrainian.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from Russian, Ukrainian.

  2. 2

    A female given name from Russian.

Etymology

A transliteration of the Russian Ми́ша (Míša), a hypocoristic for Михаи́л (Mixaíl), the Russian equivalent of Michael, from Hebrew מיכאל. Also a female name, presumably analogous to Michelle.

Forms

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

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).