Rosha

Meaning of Rosha

Rosha drifts along the old Silk Road of sound, beginning in Persian script as روشن—“bright, luminous”—then catching a crimson Hindi flicker of fierce emotion, brushing past the Hebrew gate of Rosh HaShanah with a nod to “new beginnings,” and finally donning a faint Russian mist that recalls the word for dew, all the while retaining the same soft hush of ROH-shuh whispered in English; like a lone cherry blossom petal that rides the Kamo River’s current, she appears in U.S. birth records only now and then—five or six times in a given year, just often enough to prove she isn’t a myth, yet rare enough to keep collectors of unusual names pleasantly on their toes.