what's Joomla means in your language??

[apek]

According to joomla.org, the word joomla or jumla (watever its name sound or spell), the word means 'whole' or 'all together', or in other words TOTAL. This is very beautiful as is also means the joomla is made up from the total commitment or whole efforts from all who care about the future of this software which driven by open source spirit.

Back to the thread, in my language (Malaysian) the Joomla term is similar with "Jumlah" (pronounced same as Joomla) also means Total.Whole or Sum. I'm not sure if this is on purpose or not but the trm Joomla seem suit quite number of language in the globe.I think it also means the same in Indonesian language.

How about u guys?

[sam1970]

Hi,

Well, very nice name...Joomla mean as I recall "WORD" or "SENTENCE" I believe the second in Arabic

Janna is very happy with the name Joomla. She can pronounce it very easily

Sam and Janna

[antoniosdv]

Really, in Spanish there is no definition for Joomla! and there is no term similar in my language (phonetically)

[farimi]

In Malaysian, the pronounciation of joomla is almost the same with the spoken word of ' jom la' = means 'lets go'.

[Billiken]

Its gibberish in english.

[Damienov]

(Malaysian) the Joomla term is similar with "Jumlah" (pronounced same as Joomla) also means Total.Whole or Sum. I'm not sure if this is on purpose or not but the trm Joomla seem suit quite number of language in the globe.I think it also means the same in Indonesian language.

How about u guys?

Yup its the same with Bahasa Indonesia
Jumlah = A whole, total

[alikon]

Nothing in italian means or similar joomla

[aljoomla]

In Arabic, it has two strict meanings:

• Sum or total
• a whole sentence

[zorkhh]

Hi,

there is no meaning in german...

ZorkHH

[brian]

posted elsewhere on the forum

'Jhoom lo' means 'come dance together'  in Hindi

Brian

[Toontje]

For Dutch speaking people "Joomla!", or anything close, has no meaning at all.

[sam1970]

In Arabic, it has two strict meanings:

• Sum or total
• a whole sentence

I think it also means together....like i think in some shopping centers might mean like all shops together

Sam and Janna

[Websmurf]

It means nothing in dutch as far as i know.

[ibnkuldun]

Urdu, it means sentence or verse

and in baby talk it means "what the hell are you looking at, go and get me some milk you no good waste of time"

[Matrixguru]

and in baby talk it means "what the hell are you looking at, go and get me some milk you no good waste of time"

yeh I was going to mention this but you beat me to it... :P

[tarsiux]

It has no meaning in Tagalog. But there's a nearer Tagalog slang "Jokla" which means gay.

[farimi]

In Arabic, it has two strict meanings:

• Sum or total
• a whole sentence

Malaysian Bahasa Melayu  use some arabic root words such as jumlah = means sum, or in a whole


go figure!

[Tyndal]

Well, as said before:

no real meaning in german language... but pronouncation sounds a bit like beeing drunken (for ears which hear german language all the time) - and so it may sound like "Schummler" after some beer and a too much whiskey...
"Schummler" ... mh... i guess "cheater" would be the right translation.
Nevertheless - no need to worry - it takes some "creativity" to hear "Schummler"  - time will show how it will be used over here in germany.

tyndal

[zemadz]

Hello!

In Estonian "Joomla" has the meaning of a drinking place (where they drink alcoholic drinks ofcourse), actually a place where drunkers drink all the time.  :P

[aljoomla]

Hello!

In Estonian "Joomla" has the meaning of a drinking place (where they drink alcoholic drinks ofcourse), actually a place where drunkers drink all the time.  :P

It may have some links to the "being together" part.

Besides the two meanings in Arabic (sentence and sum), the word is used sometimes to indicate wholesale pricing, such as in Bay3 bil-joomla (or wholesale trade, achat/vente en gros).

Some close words in Arabic, besides the two meanings mentioned before:

• jamaal: beauty
• jamal: camel
• jomaa: the day Friday (my name by the way)
• jameel: beautiful (male)
• jameela: beautiful (female)

[Dragonfly]

In my language joomla will mean 'make it pointed' when something isn't sharp enough one has to make it sharpened.. meaningful yeah???

[dorjano]

There is no direct connections with any expression in Slovenian but sound's like like a child exclamation for a good food.

[aravot]

In Arabic, it has two strict meanings:

• a whole sentence

Same in Farsi (Persian)

[Elpie]

There is no letter, "j" in the Maori language, and no words with two, "o"s - so, in New Zealand Maori, the name is unpronouncable.
As there are few Maori who don't speak English this isn't a major problem

However, names with that double "o" sound are VERY Australian - and THAT is a potential barrier in NZ.  LOL

[farimi]

okay, phonetic anyone?

jumla , joomla, jomla, yumla, yoomla, yomla, shomla, shemla, lalalalala, uh la la!

[apek]

it seems like quite a number a language means the same..total..whole..together....if this name is really an out of the blue idea which came suddenly, then it is the best co incidence name for open source world...

Proud to be Joomler!!!

[mviita]

In Finnish the closest I can get:

Jumala = God
Joo = yes
Juomala = drinking place, a bottom category bar

[zemadz]

In Finnish the closest I can get:

Jumala = God
Joo = yes
Juomala = drinking place, a bottom category bar

Juomala = drinking place, a bottom category bar

It's the same in Estonian. Estonian and Finnish are quite similar sometimes, but often there are misleading words when you think they look similar, but the meaning isn't actually.

[mviita]

It's the same in Estonian. Estonian and Finnish are quite similar sometimes, but often there are misleading words when you think they look similar, but the meaning isn't actually.

Right, a thing that sometimes results in amusing situations. So it's a doomed future for us Estonians and Finns with the new Juomala.

[wspoint]

It's the same in Estonian. Estonian and Finnish are quite similar sometimes, but often there are misleading words when you think they look similar, but the meaning isn't actually.

Right, a thing that sometimes results in amusing situations. So it's a doomed future for us Estonians and Finns with the new Juomala.

Being Estonian myself I think we are overreacting here 

Yes, it crossed my mind for a moment, I mean that it has some similarity with Jooma, but then again how much people have you really heard say word Joomla? And then again, as I never mentioned Mambo to my clients, I will continue this tactic with JOOMLA!.

Last thing I want, is clients running searches through neti.ee and finding some schoolboy's homepages on mambo and etc. I once said to client that website will be done with mambo, he found some crappy installation with butt ugly template and refused no matter how I tried to explain that my solution would be different.

However, you should see those faces of my friends who know what I do, when I say that CMS name changed from Mambo to Joomla(pronounce DZUMLA). You see, for a week I was like: "Guys,, there is REVOLUTION,,, Everything is so cool! It will be great! They will have a new name! And so on with high emotional touch. Now I olny say the name when they ask me  ::)  ::)  ::)  ::)  ::)  ::)  ::)