Gender:
Female
Meanings:
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Feminine form of Melvin: Sword friend; speech friend (Old English).
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Form of Malvina: Smooth-browed one (Scottish); name coined in the Ossianic poems translated by Scottish writer James Macpherson in the eighteenth century.
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Form of Malva: Soft; slender (Greek).
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Form of Malva: Mallow flower (Latin).
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