Gerasim (
Russian
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*Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries
*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
Герасим; ) is a male given name,
derived from
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
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*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
γεράσιμος (cf.
Gerasimos Gerasimos ( el, Γεράσιμος) is a Greek given name derived from Greek "γέρας" ("gΕras", "gift of honour, prize, reward"). The suffix -ιμος gives the meaning "the one who deserves honour". It can also be anglicized as "Gerassimos" or ...
), meaning "Respectable", "Honorable Elder".
First name
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Gerasim Izmailov
Gerasim Grigoryevich Izmaylov (russian: Герасим Григорьевич Измайлов; ''circa'' 1745 - ''after'' 1795) was a Russian navigator involved in the Russian colonization of the Americas and in the establishment of the colonies ...
, Russian
navigator
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* Gerasim - deaf and mute serf, a character in
Ivan Turgenev's short story''
Mumu''
*
Gerasim Khugayev (born 1945), Ossetian
politician
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*
Gerasim Lebedev (1749 – 1817), Russian
adventurer
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,
linguist
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...
*
Gerasim Pileš (1913 - 2003), a Soviet Chuvash writer playwright, sculptor, painter.
*
Gerasim I, Serbian Patriarch, Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch (1574-1586)
*
Gerasim Zakov
Gerasim Zakov ( bg, Герасим Заков; born 7 September 1984) is a Bulgarian Association football, footballer who most recently played for FC CSKA 1948 Sofia, CSKA 1918 as a Forward (association football), striker. Zakov served as the tea ...
(born 1984), Bulgarian
footballer
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*
Gerasim Zelić (1752 – 1828), a Serbian Orthodox Church archimandrite, traveller and writer
* Gerasim Petronović (1820-1906),
Serbian Orthodox Bishop of
Bay of Kotor
The Bay of Kotor ( Montenegrin and Serbian: , Italian: ), also known as the Boka, is a winding bay of the Adriatic Sea in southwestern Montenegro and the region of Montenegro concentrated around the bay. It is also the southernmost part of the hi ...
and writer
*
Gjerasim Qiriazi (Gerasim Kyrias) (1858 – 1894), an Albanian Protestant preacher and educator.
Related surnames
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Gerasimov
See also
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Gerasimos (disambiguation)
References
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Slavic masculine given names
Bulgarian masculine given names
Russian masculine given names
Given names of Greek language origin
Serbian masculine given names