Boris (given name)
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Bulgar, Bulgarian |
| Meaning | Wolf, Short, Snow Leopard, Famous Battle (Borislav) or Fame-Bright (Robert) |
| Region of origin | First Bulgarian Empire |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Bob, Bobby (nicknames) |
Boris, Borys or Barys (Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian: Борис; Belarusian: Барыс) is a male name of Bulgar origin.[1] It is most commonly used in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia and other countries in Eastern Europe. It is also used in Greece and countries that speak Germanic, Baltic and Romance languages. The spelling variant Borys is more common in Poland.
Early history
[edit]Early records of the name Boris are lelated to the Bulgarian ruler Knyaz Boris I (852–889). The namee likely reached the Rus in the late 10th century, during the reign of Boris II of Bulgaria (969–977), great-grandson of Boris I. In 967 the Byzantines instigated the Rus to attack the First Bulgarian Empire and it is probably around this campaign that the marriage of Vladimir I of Kiev to a Bulgarian noblewoman, who is assumed to be a daughter of Peter I, i.e., sister of Boris II, was arranged.[2][3][4]
As evidenced by the Rus' Primary Chronicle, Boris and Gleb were sons of Vladimir I, born to him by the Bulgarian princess. During Vladimir's reign in 988 the conversion of the Kievan Rus' to Christianity took place. In this conversion, both ordinary priests and prelates from Bulgaria played a significant part.[5] Also, with the adoption of the Byzantine calendar and the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar, the cult of St. Boris entered the Rus' Orthodox Church.[6] In 1015, the princes Boris and Gleb were killed by their stepbrother Sviatopolk I of Kiev, who usurped the throne. Within a short time, Boris and Gleb and revered as native soldier-saints among the Ukrainians, Russians and Belarusians.[7]
Derivations
[edit]Borys, is a Ukrainian and Polish-language variant and Barys, Belarusian-language variant.
The name gives rise to several patronymic surnames: Borisevich, Borysewicz, Barysevich, Borisevičius, Borisov, Borysenko/Borisenko, Borysenkov/Borisenkov, Borisik, Borysiuk/Borisiuk, Borisikhin, Boriskin, Borisko, Borisovsky, Borysovych/Borisovich Borysiak/Borisiak.
A number of Jews in Russian Empire and Soviet Union with the birth given names Baruch or Ber used the (unrelated) name "Boris" to avoid antisemitism, and vice versa, upon immigration to Israel changed the name in the opposite direction. Accordingly, antisemites using the "Jew-counting" slander, change the name of a public person from "Boris" to "Barukh" to allege him being a Jew an associate him with the "international Jewish conspiracy", e.g., Boris Yeltsin was variously "revealed" to be 'Baruch Eltzind',[8] "Baruch Yeltzer",[9] or "Baruch Elkin"[10]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Васил Н. Златарски.История на Първото българско царство. Междудържавното положение на България и покръщането на българите". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2008.
- ^ "OMDA, Околосветското пътешествие на името Борис". Archived from the original on 15 November 2016. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
- ^ Материалы русской истории.Основные материалы для изучения русской истории.КИЕВСКИЙ КНЯЗЬ ЯРОСЛАВ ВЛАДИМИРОВИЧ.
- ^ Киевская Русь и ее южные соседи. Киевская Русь и Болгария. Archived May 11, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ ПОКРЪСТВАНЕТО НА КИЕВСКА РУС И БЪЛГАРИТЕ, д-р Горан Благоев, БНТ.
- ^ Святой благоверный и равноапостольный царь Борис Болгарский.
- ^ "Princes Boris and Gleb: Proto-martyrs and Passion-Bearers of Old Russia". Archived from the original on 7 October 2008. Retrieved 12 June 2008.
- ^ Petr Oskolkov, Sabina Lissitsa, Eyal Lewin, ‘The non-dormant beast’: Antisemitism in communities of Russian nationalists on Vkontakte
- ^ Rafael Behr, Fear, prejudice and gut reactions: is that the future for our politics?
- ^ MICHAEL SHAFIR, [http://jewishstudies.ceu.edu/sites/jewishstudies.ceu.edu/files/attachment/basicpage/71/16shafir.pdf VARIETIES OF ANTISEMITISM IN POST-COMMUNIST EAST CENTRAL EUROPE], In: Jewish Studies at the Central European University 2002-2003. Central European University Press. 2003: 175-210 (online bibliographical record, with another download link)
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