TARAS

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Ukrainian, Russian

Other Scripts: Тарас (Ukrainian, Russian)

Pronounced: tah-RAHS (Russian) [key]
Ukrainian and Russian form of the Greek name Ταρασιος (Tarasios), which possibly means "of Tarentum". Tarentum was a town in Italy, now called Taranto. Saint Tarasios was an 8th-century bishop of Constantinople.

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