Please Help Name These Tigers!

[oncogene.livejournal.com]

My roommate happens to work in the Cat House at Riverbanks Zoo. Very recently, three Siberian tigers have been borne into the house -- and being the unoriginal people that they are -- they want to give them Russian names. All three of them are female, so there is a running list of suggestions. The problem is that from what I've seen, half of the names are male. Come on, that won't do. (Unfortunately, they rejected Чебурашка, which would have been funny as hell.)

So, please help name these tigers! Two or three syllable ideas, please. Mind you, you aren't restricted to just names. These are cats, not humans. Should you submit a non-name, please provide the translation.

(crossposted to russia_love)

Comments

[ex-ex-zhuzh.livejournal.com]

Машка, Милка и Мурка. Those are all traditional names for female house cats.

[legr.livejournal.com]

Milka is more for cows...
Murka is better as other names because it is for some one who purrs
(to purr = murlykat).
Mashka and Murka, both names are versions for Mary.

[oncogene.livejournal.com]

*cough*cough* tigers not housecats *cough*cough* ;)

[ex-ex-zhuzh.livejournal.com]

That's the point, kinda ;)

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

ШУРА! Short for Александра. Sounds classy, I think :)

[ars-longa.livejournal.com]

There are literally thousands of names that can fit (more of less), but I, personally, am unable to name an animal without seeing it. But, basically, any female name or its diminutive will do. Check this site - http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/rus.html

[oncogene.livejournal.com]

Ah, but I'm not really requesting "just any list of names". I was hoping people would get into this and come up with some really good names to go with the animals. If it were just about finding a list of names, heck, I could have Googled that. :)

[ars-longa.livejournal.com]

To name an animal you have to see it, get some idea about its personality. How you can give a name to a person (even if this person is an animal :)) without seeing it?

[solito.livejournal.com]

Вера, Надежда и Любовь

[oncogene.livejournal.com]

Любовь is /such/ a good idea!

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

then how about судьба?

[http://users.livejournal.com/erizo_/]

Ольга, Мария, Ирина (or Оля, Маша, Ира).
These are main characters of Chekhov's "Three Sisters".

[suku-vse.livejournal.com]

Cheburashka is male! (BTW, I recommend to read the book or watch the animated film - it's become part of culture.)

Констанция
Ангелина
Маврикия

[staring-frog.livejournal.com]

I'm not too shure about it.

I think he had no gender.

[oncogene.livejournal.com]

I don't think so either. No gender. No origin. :)

[oncogene.livejournal.com]

Heck, no species!

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

No species, that's right, but he's male - beсause Gena calls him "дорогой Чебурашка", not "дорогое" :)))

[oncogene.livejournal.com]

I thought -ой was a feminine ending?

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

In certain cases, yes. There is no such things like steady endings in Russian.
Дорогой Чебурашка (dear Cheburashka,) дорогой товарищ Брежнев (dear comrade Brezhnev,) дорогой автомобиль (expensive car) - "dear" and "expensive" is the same word in Russian - masculine.
Дорогая бабушка (dear Grandma,) дорогая одежда (expensive clothes) - feminine.
Дорогое вино (expensive wine) - neutral.
But if you put a feminine word into a certain case, that's where the fun begins. Я купил часы в подарок моей дорогой бабушке (I have bought a watch as a gift for my dear Grandma.) There you go: it's -ой but feminine.

[oncogene.livejournal.com]

>>There is no such things like steady endings in Russian.

Jesus. That's like telling me that gravity isn't real and that it's time to take the blue pill.

[dontbeakakke.livejournal.com]

Um, I like the name Настя