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Comment by gautamcgoel | Hacker News Reader

This is named after the three-headed dragon from the Godzilla cinematic universe, right?

"Ghidra" sounds like "غدر" which is Arabic for "treachery" which is funny since this was released by the NSA.

Where can I hear the correct sound of "غدر"? Google Translate reads it "ha-zi-bo-m", Bing Translator reads it "laz-bo-m", both are not like "Ghidra".

The transliteration of the Arabic would be gh-d-r. (Note that Arabic doesn't normally write out its vowels). The `gh' should sound roughly like the voiced variant of the final sound of "loch" or "Bach".

Given that your purported translations all have four consonants in them, not three, I'm guessing you somehow pasted the wrong string? When I get "غدر" in Google Translate, I get the transliteration as ghadar and not ha-zi-bo-m.

You can use Google translate. This is how "ghadara" is pronounced which actually translates to "committed treason".

https://translate.google.com/?sl=ar&tl=en&text=%D8%BA%D8%AF%...

Here I added a couple diacritics (just to make it sound just like "ghidra".

https://translate.google.com/?sl=ar&tl=en&text=%D8%BA%D9%90%...

Correct, they just spelled it differently to avoid search etc confusion.

I strongly suspect that is the case, especially considering the logo :)

I don’t think it is.

King Ghidorah is the 3 headed monster from the Godzilla universe.

Certainly seems like it is...

It's very possible. The Japanese pronunciation of hydra can be written as either Ghidorah (as seen in Godzilla) or Ghidra (as seen in Final Fantasy), among others, in English.

And the Greek pronunciation is "eedra", which has a lot fewer sounds than the above.

Good to know. As a Godzilla fan, I didn’t know that. Thanks for the info.

I think it's named after a monster from a Final Fantasy game.

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