Gabriel
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin Gabriel, from Ancient Greek Γαβρῑήλ (Gabrīḗl), from Hebrew גַּבְרִיאֵל (gaḇrīʾḗl, “God is my strong man”), from גֶּבֶר (géver, “strong man, hero”) and אֵל (ʾēl, “God, deity”), from Proto-Semitic *ʾil-. Doublet of Jibril.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈɡeɪbɹi.əl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Gabriel
- A male given name from Hebrew.
- 1629, Thomas Adams, Meditations upon Creed, The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 212:
- Yea, it seems to me not fit for Christian humility to call a man Gabriel or Michael, giving the names of angels to the sons of mortality.
- 1986, Paul Bailey, Gabriel's Lament, Viking, published 1987, →ISBN, page 20:
- "I'm the only Gabriel in the whole school," I told my father. "You don't have to whisper it from the tomb, lad. You should thank your mother and me for giving you a handle that people notice. You ought to be pleased, not down in the dumps. Backstreet Gabriels aren't bumped into on every corner, remember.
- 1629, Thomas Adams, Meditations upon Creed, The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 212:
- An archangel associated in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, with carrying messages from God.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 9:21::
- Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:26::
- And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
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Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central) [ɡə.βɾiˈɛl]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [ɡə.bɾiˈɛl]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [ɡa.bɾiˈɛl]
- Rhymes: -ɛl
Proper noun
[edit]Gabriel m
Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Gabriel m anim
- a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
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nominative | Gabriel | Gabrielové |
genitive | Gabriela | Gabrielů |
dative | Gabrielovi, Gabrielu | Gabrielům |
accusative | Gabriela | Gabriely |
vocative | Gabriele, Gabrieli | Gabrielové |
locative | Gabrielovi, Gabrielu | Gabrielech |
instrumental | Gabrielem | Gabriely |
Danish
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Gabriel
- Gabriel (Archangel)
- a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel
Faroese
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Gabriel m
- a male given name
Usage notes
[edit]Patronymics
- son of Gabriel: Gabrielsson
- daughter of Gabriel: Gabrielsdóttir
Declension
[edit]Singular | |
Indefinite | |
Nominative | Gabriel |
Accusative | Gabriel |
Dative | Gabrieli |
Genitive | Gabriels |
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek Γαβρῑήλ (Gabrīḗl), from Biblical Hebrew גַּבְרִיאֵל (gaḇrīʾḗl).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Gabriel
- Gabriel (Archangel)
- a male given name from Biblical Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Gabriel (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Gabriel | Gabrielit | |
genitive | Gabrielin | Gabrielien | |
partitive | Gabrielia | Gabrieleja | |
illative | Gabrieliin | Gabrieleihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Gabriel | Gabrielit | |
accusative | nom. | Gabriel | Gabrielit |
gen. | Gabrielin | ||
genitive | Gabrielin | Gabrielien | |
partitive | Gabrielia | Gabrieleja | |
inessive | Gabrielissa | Gabrieleissa | |
elative | Gabrielista | Gabrieleista | |
illative | Gabrieliin | Gabrieleihin | |
adessive | Gabrielilla | Gabrieleilla | |
ablative | Gabrielilta | Gabrieleilta | |
allative | Gabrielille | Gabrieleille | |
essive | Gabrielina | Gabrieleina | |
translative | Gabrieliksi | Gabrieleiksi | |
abessive | Gabrielitta | Gabrieleitta | |
instructive | — | Gabrielein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Related terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- Gabriel is the 368th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 858 male individuals (and as a middle name to 3,200 more, making it more common as a middle name), and also belongs to 5 female individuals (and as a middle name to 13 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Gabriel m
- Gabriel (Archangel)
- a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel
Related terms
[edit]- female given name: Gabrielle
Descendants
[edit]- → Alemannic German: Gaabi
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Gabriel
- (biblical) Gabriel (Archangel)
- a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel
Related terms
[edit]- feminine form: Gabriele
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek Γαβρῑήλ (Gabrīḗl), from Biblical Hebrew גַּבְרִיאֵל (Gaḇrīʾḗl, “God is my strong man”), from גֶּבֶר (géver, “strong man, hero”) and אֵל (ʾēl, “God”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈɡa.bri.eːl/, [ˈɡäbrieːɫ̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡa.bri.el/, [ˈɡäːbriel]
Proper noun
[edit]Gabriēl m sg (variously declined, genitive Gabriēl or Gabriēlis); indeclinable, third declension
Declension
[edit]Indeclinable noun or third-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Gabriēl |
Genitive | Gabriēl Gabriēlis |
Dative | Gabriēl Gabriēlī |
Accusative | Gabriēl Gabriēlem |
Ablative | Gabriēl Gabriēle |
Vocative | Gabriēl |
Descendants
[edit]- → Albanian: Gabriel
- → Catalan: Gabriel, Biel
- → Czech: Gabriel
- → Danish: Gabriel
- → Dutch: Gabriël
- Afrikaans: Gabriël
- → English: Gabriel
- → Faroese: Gabriel, Gabrial, Brialdur
- → Finnish: Gabriel, Kaaperi, Kaapre, Kaaprel, Kaaprelli, Kaapo
- → French: Gabriel
- → Alemannic German: Gaabi
- → Galician: Gabriel
- → Georgian: გაბრიელი (gabrieli)
- → German: Gabriel
- → Greenlandic: Kaapriale, Kapriali, Kaparialli
- → Gujarati: ગેબ્રિયલ (gebriyal)
- → Hindi: गेब्रियल (gebriyal)
- → Hungarian: Gabór, Gábriel
- → Icelandic: Gabríel
- → Irish: Gaibrial, Gaibriéil, Gaibriél
- → Italian: Gabriele
- → Japanese: ガブリエル (Gaburieru)
- → Kannada: ಗೇಬ್ರಿಯಲ್ (gēbriyal)
- → Korean: 가브리엘 (Gabeuriel)
- → Latvian: Gabriels
- → Lithuanian: Gabrielius
- → Maltese: Gabrijel
- → Norman: Gabriel
- → Norwegian: Gabriel
- → Persian: گابریل (gâbriel)
- → Polish: Gabriel
- → Portuguese: Gabriel, Biel
- → Romanian: Gabriel
- → Serbo-Croatian: Gabrijel
- → Slovak: Gabriel
- → Slovene: Gabrijel
- → Spanish: Gabriel
- → Swedish: Gabriel, Gabrel
- → Welsh: Gabriel
References
[edit]- Gabriel in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Norman
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Gabriel m
- a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel
Norwegian
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Gabriel
- Gabriel (Archangel).
- a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel
Polish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin Gabriēl.
Proper noun
[edit]Gabriel m pers (female equivalent Gabriela, diminutive Gabryś)
- a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Biblical Hebrew], equivalent to English Gabriel
- (biblical) Gabriel (archangel)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
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nominative | Gabriel | Gabrielowie/Gabriele (deprecative) |
genitive | Gabriela | Gabrieli |
dative | Gabrielowi | Gabrielom |
accusative | Gabriela | Gabrieli |
instrumental | Gabrielem | Gabrielami |
locative | Gabrielu | Gabrielach |
vocative | Gabrielu | Gabrielowie |
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Proper noun
[edit]Gabriel f
Further reading
[edit]- Gabriel in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese Gabrïél.
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
[edit]Gabriel m (plural Gabriéis)
- a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel
- (Christianity, Judaism) Gabriel (archangel who carries messages from God)
Slovak
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Gabriel m anim
- a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | Gabriel | Gabrielovia |
genitive | Gabriela | Gabrielov |
dative | Gabrielovi | Gabrielom |
accusative | Gabriela | Gabrielov |
locative | Gabrielovi | Gabrieloch |
instrumental | Gabrielom | Gabrielmi |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “Gabriel”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Gabriel m
- Gabriel (Archangel)
- a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel
Related terms
[edit]Swedish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Gabriel c (genitive Gabriels)
- Gabriel (Archangel).
- a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- female given name: Gabriella
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish Gabriel.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ɡabɾiˈel/ [ɡɐbˈɾjɛl]
- Rhymes: -el
- Syllabification: Gab‧ri‧el
Proper noun
[edit]Gabriél (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜊ᜔ᜇᜒᜌᜒᜎ᜔)
- (biblical) Gabriel
- a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel
- a surname from Spanish
Related terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Gabriel is the 108th most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 54,263 individuals.
Anagrams
[edit]- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English terms derived from Hebrew
- English terms derived from Proto-Semitic
- English doublets
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English given names
- English male given names
- English male given names from Hebrew
- English terms with quotations
- English surnames
- English surnames from patronymics
- en:Biblical characters
- en:Individuals
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Catalan/ɛl
- Rhymes:Catalan/ɛl/3 syllables
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan proper nouns
- Catalan masculine nouns
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech lemmas
- Czech proper nouns
- Czech masculine nouns
- Czech animate nouns
- Czech given names
- Czech male given names
- Czech male given names from Hebrew
- Czech masculine animate nouns
- Czech hard masculine animate nouns
- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- Danish given names
- Danish male given names
- Danish male given names from Hebrew
- da:Biblical characters
- da:Individuals
- Faroese lemmas
- Faroese proper nouns
- Faroese masculine nouns
- Faroese given names
- Faroese male given names
- Finnish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Finnish terms derived from Biblical Hebrew
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑbriel
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑbriel/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish male given names
- Finnish male given names from Biblical Hebrew
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- fi:Biblical characters
- fi:Individuals
- French 3-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French proper nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French given names
- French male given names
- French male given names from Hebrew
- fr:Biblical characters
- fr:Individuals
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
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- German lemmas
- German proper nouns
- de:Biblical characters
- German given names
- German male given names
- German male given names from Hebrew
- de:Individuals
- Latin terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Latin terms derived from Biblical Hebrew
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin proper nouns
- Latin nouns with multiple declensions
- Latin indeclinable nouns
- Latin masculine indeclinable nouns
- Latin third declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the third declension
- Latin masculine nouns
- la:Biblical characters
- Norman lemmas
- Norman proper nouns
- Norman masculine nouns
- Norman given names
- Norman male given names
- Norman male given names from Hebrew
- Norwegian lemmas
- Norwegian proper nouns
- Norwegian given names
- Norwegian male given names
- Norwegian male given names from Hebrew
- no:Biblical characters
- no:Individuals
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Polish/abrjɛl
- Rhymes:Polish/abrjɛl/2 syllables
- Polish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Polish terms derived from Biblical Hebrew
- Polish terms borrowed from Latin
- Polish learned borrowings from Latin
- Polish terms derived from Latin
- Polish lemmas
- Polish proper nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish personal nouns
- Polish given names
- Polish male given names
- Polish male given names from Latin
- Polish male given names from Ancient Greek
- Polish male given names from Biblical Hebrew
- pl:Biblical characters
- Polish non-lemma forms
- Polish proper noun forms
- pl:Individuals
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛl
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛl/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛw
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛw/3 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese proper nouns with plurals
- Portuguese given names
- Portuguese male given names
- Portuguese male given names from Hebrew
- pt:Christianity
- pt:Judaism
- Slovak terms with IPA pronunciation
- Slovak lemmas
- Slovak proper nouns
- Slovak masculine nouns
- Slovak animate nouns
- Slovak given names
- Slovak male given names
- Slovak male given names from Hebrew
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/el
- Rhymes:Spanish/el/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish proper nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish given names
- Spanish male given names
- Spanish male given names from Hebrew
- es:Biblical characters
- es:Individuals
- Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Swedish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Swedish/ɛl
- Rhymes:Swedish/ɛl/3 syllables
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish given names
- Swedish male given names
- Swedish male given names from Hebrew
- sv:Biblical characters
- sv:Individuals
- Tagalog terms borrowed from Spanish
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- Tagalog 3-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/el
- Rhymes:Tagalog/el/3 syllables
- Tagalog terms with mabilis pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog proper nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- tl:Biblical characters
- Tagalog given names
- Tagalog male given names
- Tagalog male given names from Hebrew
- Tagalog surnames
- Tagalog surnames from Spanish