Help with meaning of japanese surnames

[duo797]

Originally Posted by BenBullock

Just these?

Abe

He is president of the USA.

Abukara

This means "from Abu", the character in the Simpsons.

I hate to be a debbie downer, but Abu is the monkey from Alladin, Apu is the character from the simpsons. >.>

[princessmarisa]

Originally Posted by duo797

I hate to be a debbie downer, but Abu is the monkey from Alladin, Apu is the character from the simpsons. >.>

so abukara means because of that damn monkey?

[WingsToDiscovery]

hi wats the meaning of life

[chryuop]

Originally Posted by princessmarisa

so abukara means because of that damn monkey?

No, that would be もうアブのせいで

[princessmarisa]

Originally Posted by chryuop

No, that would be もうアブのせいで

It was a joke, admittedly quite a bad one. アブ = damn monkey から=because of

[chryuop]

Originally Posted by princessmarisa

It was a joke, admittedly quite a bad one. アブ = damn monkey から=because of

I got that it wanted to be a joke...but から doesn't mean "because of".

[Hyakume]

Originally Posted by KyleGoetz

How about you try Google first. For example, it took me one try to get search results where the first site found answers the question for "Abe": japanese surname meaning abe - Google Search
Beyond that, Wikipedia is helpful too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_(surname)

I'm not sure how many you've listed, but it looks to be well over 200. Many, many of them have multiple meanings. It's kind of unreasonable to expect someone to actually answer this question.

For example, Takahashi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There's the Wikipedia entry for Takahashi, which mentions ten different ways of writing it, which means ten different meanings. It also mentions the most popular one as meaning "high bridge."

So that link, for example, shows how much work would actually be involved in answering your question (bordering on impossibility, actually), and it also shows how you could find much of the answer yourself quite easily.

Of course, someone here might actually want to jump in and help you. I'm just giving you what I consider to be the reasonable expectation that you're not going to get help in answering much of the question.

Oh, Nice to see that there are people like you that took your time to reply and try to help me somehow. Even if you didn't translate them, at least you gave me some kind of advice. Thanks very much.

@Supperman:
I'm glad for your help, it's clear to say that it's exactly what they mean.

As for most others, especially BenBullock and Pandaman. GET A LIFE.

[dogsbody70]

well posting such a long list and expecting answers for them all.

Bit of a cheek wasn't it.

[princessmarisa]

Originally Posted by chryuop

I got that it wanted to be a joke...but から doesn't mean "because of".

oh I thought you could use から as because,(similar to ので and used to make だから） and if it comes at the end of the sentance the easiest way to make that makes sense in English is to add the word of.


重そうですから。 Because it is so heavy (similar to because of its heaviness.. but that is messy English)
From: Find sentences - Denshi Jisho

Can it not be used without です、or with a proper noun?

Thanks for teaching me

[Nyororin]

For some strange reason, I`m kind of disappointed that our family name isn`t on here... It isn`t even uncommon.