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Elyaqim Mosheh Adam (Hebrew: אליקים משה אדם ʾĒlyāqîm Mōšeh ʾĀḏām), born 19 December 1968 of the Gregorian calendar in the Bronx, New York City, New York, is an amateur writer, videographer, list-maker, music collector, quasi-linguist and gay, secular Jewish-American.
I have traveled to México, Canada, Turkey (Türkiye), Morocco (المغرب) and Egypt (مصر، מצרים). (I have contributed substantially to Wikipedia’s article on Marrakech [مراكش].) See my Virtualtourist travel page for a fairly comprehensive list of whither I have traveled, although their database is curiously missing some places in Turkey I have been (Aphrodisias, Aspendos, Perge, Sardis).
I am able to read the Latin, Hebraic and Arabic scripts, and I know numerous words and phrases in Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, Persian and Urdu, but English is the only language I can speak and read with true fluency.
[edit] My name
My full name is of Hebrew origin with the name “Mosheh” able to be traced back further to an Egyptian origin. [1] In Syriac script, it is ܐܠܝܩܝܡ ܡܫܗ ܐܕܡ, and in Phœnician script, it is 𐤀𐤋𐤉𐤒𐤉𐤌𐤟𐤌𐤔𐤄𐤟𐤀𐤃𐤌. In Arabic script, it is الياقيم مشه آدام with the letter alif used to represent the “ā” sound. (The first alif should theoretically carry a hamza [ء], but as Arabic has no true “ē” sound, I don’t know whether it would be better above [أ] or below [إ] it.)
ʾĒlyāqîm means “God set up” or “God established” and was also my mother’s father’s name. Mōšeh probably just means “child” [2] and was chosen as a masculinization of my mother’s mother’s mother’s name Masi (מאַסי). ʾĀḏām means “earth” and was chosen as a counterpart to my mother’s father’s Western name “Alex,” ultimately of Greek origin.
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