Thirza

Etymology
Borrowed from the variant of Tirzah through 18th-century literature.

Proper noun

 * 1) * 1817 Robert Patterson, Recluse: The Art of Domestick Happiness: and other poems, page 182:
 * What, tell me, my Thirza, provokes thee to speak, / In high-sounding phrases, our Mordecai's name?
 * What, tell me, my Thirza, provokes thee to speak, / In high-sounding phrases, our Mordecai's name?

Proper noun

 * 1) * 1758 Salomon Gessner, Der Tod Abels, Zürich (1823), page 12; translated in 1811 by Mary Collyer as The Death of Abel, page 5:
 * "de"
 * "de"

- Da giengen Abel und seine geliebte Thirza aus ihrer Hütte hervor, in die nahe geruchreiche Laube von Jasminen und Rosen.