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Abraham

name
/ˈeɪ.bɹə.hæm/UK/ˈeɪ.bɹəˌhæm/US/ˈeɪ.bɹæm/

Etymology

Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew אַבְרָהָם (ʔaḇrɔhɔm)bor. Ancient Greek Ἀβρᾱᾱ́μ (Abrāā́m)bor. Latin Ābrahāmbor. Old English Abraham Middle English Abraham English Abraham From Middle English Abraham, from Old English Abraham, from Late Latin Ābrahām, from Ancient Greek Ἀβρᾱᾱ́μ (Abrāā́m), from Hebrew אַבְרָהָם ('aḇrāhām, “Abraham”). Thomas L. Thompson suggests that the meaning of the name in Genesis was forgotten due to its age and that its original meaning was "Father is exalted." Glossed as אַב (aḇ, “father of”) + הֲמוֹן (hăˈmōn, “multitude of”) in Genesis 17:4–5; or from Hebrew אַבְרָם ('aḇrām, “Abram”). Doublet of Ibrahim and Avraham.

  1. derived from אַבְרָם — “Abram”
  2. derived from אַבְרָהָם — “Abraham”
  3. derived from Ἀβρᾱᾱ́μ
  4. derived from Ābrahām
  5. inherited from Abraham
  6. inherited from Abraham

Definitions

  1. A prophet in the Old Testament, Qur'an and Aqdas

    A prophet in the Old Testament, Qur'an and Aqdas; a Semitic patriarch son of Terah who practiced monotheism, father of the Jewish patriarch Isaac by Sarah and the Arab patriarch Ishmael by Hagar.

    • Neither ſhall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name ſhall bee Abraham: for a father of many nations haue I made thee.

  2. A male given name from Hebrew.

  3. A surname originating as a patronymic.

    • Farmer also happened to be just the kind of expert that Franck and his co-author Daniel Abraham needed to bring their novels to the screen.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The 14th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

    2. A shop selling cheap and low-quality clothes, especially in the East End of London.

The neighborhood

Derived

Abrahamic, Abrahamical, Abrahamism, Abrahamist, Abrahamite, Abrahamize, Abraham man, Abraham's balsam, Abrahamson, Abraham's willing, Gaybraham, Plains of Abraham

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at Abraham. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at abraham. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at abraham

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA