Hades three-headed guard dog Cerberus. The Etruscan god Aita and the Roman gods Dis Pater and Orcus were eventually taken as equivalent to Hades and merged into Pluto, a Latinization of Plouton (", Ploútōn"), itself a euphemistic title often given to Hades. The origin of Hades' name is uncertain, but has generally been seen as meaning "the unseen one" since antiquity. An extensive section of Plato's dialogue "Cratylus" is devoted to the etymology of the god's name, in which Socrates is arguing for a folk etymology not from "unseen" but from "his knowledge ("eidenai") of all noble things". Modern linguists have
Names of God in Islam While the names of God themselves are reserved to God and their use as a person's given name is considered religiously inappropriate, theophoric names can however be formed by either removing the definite article "al" (ال), or prefixing the term "ˁabdu" (عَبْدُ - "servant of") to the name. For example, a person may not be named "Al-Karīm" (ٱلْكَرِيمُ - "the Generous") or "Al-Mālik" (ٱلْمَـٰلِك - "the King"), but may be named simply "Karīm" (كَرِيمُ - "Generous") or "Mālik" (مَـٰلِك - "King"), as well as "ˤAbd ul-Karīm" (عَبْدُ ٱلْكَرِيمُ - "servant of the Generous") or "ˤAbd ul-Mālik" (عَبْدُ ٱلْمَـٰلِك - "servant