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Zdeslava
Zdeslava is a female first name of Slavic origin, which means ''famous here''. Another variant is Zdislava. Short forms include: * Zdenka, Zdiška, Iška, Slávka, Slava, Zdesa, Zdesha Bearers of name Zdeslava or Zdislava include: * Zdislava Berka Zdislava Berka (also Zdislava of Lemberk; 1220–1252, in what is now the northern part of Czech Republic) was the wife of Havel of Markvartice, Duke of Lemberk, and is a Czech saint of the Roman Catholic Church. She was a "wife, mother, and on ..., a Bohemian saint {{given name Slavic feminine given names Czech feminine given names ...
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Zdenka
Zdenka or Zdeňka () is a feminine given name in Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Serbian, and Slovenian, originally a short form of Zdeslava. Notable people with the name include: * Zdenka Badovinac, Slovenian art critic * Zdenka Braunerová, Czech painter * Zdenka Cecília Schelingová, Slovak nun * Zdenka Fantlová, Czech actor, writer and Holocaust survivor * Zdenka Grossmannová, Czechoslovak canoer * Zdenka Hradilova, Czechoslovak canoer * Zdenka Kovačiček, Croatian singer * Zdenka Kramplová, Slovak politician * Zdenka Podkapová, Czech model * Zdenka Predná, Slovak singer * Zdeňka Šilhavá, Czech athlete * Zdenka Ticharich, Hungarian pianist * Zdeňka Vávrová, Czech astronomer * Zdeňka Veřmiřovská, Czechoslovakian (Moravian) artistic gymnast ** 3364 Zdenka, an asteroid named for her * ''Zdenka'', fictional character in the opera Arabella See also * Zdeslava * Zdenko Zdenko is a male given name of Slovak, Slovene or Croatian origin. It is the Slavic version of the ...
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Female
Female (Venus symbol, symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ovum, ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the Sperm, male gamete during sexual reproduction. A female has larger gametes than a male. Females and males are results of the anisogamous reproduction system, wherein gametes are of different sizes, unlike isogamy where they are the same size. The exact mechanism of female gamete evolution remains unknown. In species that have males and females, Sex-determination system, sex-determination may be based on either sex chromosomes, or environmental conditions. Most female mammals, including female humans, have two X chromosomes. Female characteristics vary between different species with some species having pronounced Secondary sex characteristic, secondary female sex characteristics, such as the presence of pronounced mammary glands in mammals. In humans, the word ''female'' can also be used to refer to gender i ...
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Slavic Languages
The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic, spoken during the Early Middle Ages, which in turn is thought to have descended from the earlier Proto-Balto-Slavic language, linking the Slavic languages to the Baltic languages in a Balto-Slavic group within the Indo-European family. The Slavic languages are conventionally (that is, also on the basis of extralinguistic features) divided into three subgroups: East, South, and West, which together constitute more than 20 languages. Of these, 10 have at least one million speakers and official status as the national languages of the countries in which they are predominantly spoken: Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian (of the East group), Polish, Czech and Slovak (of the West group) and Bulgarian and Macedonian (eastern dialects of the South group), and Serbo-C ...
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Zdislava Berka
Zdislava Berka (also Zdislava of Lemberk; 1220–1252, in what is now the northern part of Czech Republic) was the wife of Havel of Markvartice, Duke of Lemberk, and is a Czech saint of the Roman Catholic Church. She was a "wife, mother, and one of the earliest lay Dominicans". She was a "precociously pious child", running away at the age of seven to the forest to become a hermit. She was forced by her family to return home, and when she was 15, they forced her to marry wealthy nobleman Havel of Markvartice. He treated her brutally, but she was eventually able to perform acts of charity, give refuge to the poor and dispossessed at their home, found and support two priories, and join the Third Order of Saint Dominic as a layperson. She died in 1252. She is the patron saint of Bohemia, of difficult marriages, and of those who are ridiculed for their piety. Her feast day is on 1 January. Life Zdislava was from the town of Litoměřice in what is now the northern part of the Czech R ...
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Slavic Feminine Given Names
Slavic, Slav or Slavonic may refer to: Peoples * Slavic peoples, an ethno-linguistic group living in Europe and Asia ** East Slavic peoples, eastern group of Slavic peoples ** South Slavic peoples, southern group of Slavic peoples ** West Slavic peoples, western group of Slavic peoples ** Slavic Americans, Americans of Slavic descent * Anti-Slavic sentiment, negative attitude towards Slavic peoples * Pan-Slavic movement, movement in favor of Slavic cooperation and unity * Slavic studies, a multidisciplinary field of studies focused on history and culture of Slavic peoples Languages, alphabets, and names * Slavic languages, a group of closely related Indo-European languages ** Proto-Slavic language, reconstructed proto-language of all Slavic languages ** Old Church Slavonic, 9th century Slavic literary language, used for the purpose of evangelizing the Slavic peoples ** Church Slavonic, a written and spoken variant of Old Church Slavonic, standardized and widely adopt ...
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