Here's how you say "love" in different languages; many are already used as names (marked with an asterisk; feminine unless stated otherwise).
- Agapi (ah-GAH-pee)--Greek*
- Ahava (ah-hah-VAH)--Hebrew*
- Ai (eye, ah-ee)--Chinese*, Japanese* [also a common name element in Japanese]
- Aloha (ah-loh-hah)--Hawaiian*
- Amor (AH-mor)--Latin [for a more in-depth list of names based on Latin 'amor', look here]
- Amor (ah-MOHR)--Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish
- Amore (ah-MOHR-eh)--Italian
- Amour (ah-MOOR)--French
- Cariad (CA-ree-ad)--Welsh [related names are fairly common: Carys/Cerys (f), Ceri (f/m), etc]
- Cinta (CHIN-tah)--Indonesian*
- Elska (EL-skah)--Icelandic
- Karantez (kah-RAHN-tez)--Breton
- Kerenja (keh-REN-jah)--Cornish
- Kerensa (keh-REN-sah)--Cornish*
- Láska (LAHS-kah)--Czech
- Liba (LEE-bah)--Yiddish*
- Liebe (LEE-beh)--German
- Mahabba (mah-HAB-bah)--Arabic
- Meilė (MAY-leh [long 'eh', no English equivalent])--Lithuanian*
- Mīla (MEE-lah)--Latvian*
- Minne (MIN-neh)--[archaic] Dutch, [archaic] German
- Prem (prem)--Bengali*, Hindi* [masculine; feminine is Prema]
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