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Av (Hebrew: אָב, Standard Av Tiberian ʾĀḇ Aramaic אבא Abba; related to Akkadian abu; "father"; plural: Hebrew: אבות Avot or Abot) means "father" in Hebrew. The exact meaning of the element ab (אב) or abi (אבי) in Hebrew personal names (such as Ab-ram, Ab-i-ram, Ah-ab, Jo-ab) is a matter of dispute.
Abba, an originally Aramaic form borrowed into the Greek Old Testament as a name (2Chr 29:1) [standing for the Hebrew Abijah (אביה )], common in Mishnaic Hebrew and still used in Modern Hebrew [33] (written Αββά[ς] in Greek, and ’abbā in Aramaic), is immediately followed by the Greek equivalent (Πατήρ) with no explicit ...
Rav Abba bar Aybo (Aramaic: רַב אַבָּא בַּר אִיבּוֹ; 175–247 CE), commonly known as Abba Arikha (אַבָּא אריכא) [1] or simply as Rav (רַב), was a Jewish amora of the 3rd century. He was born and lived in Kafri, Asoristan, in the Sasanian Empire.
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The nearest common ancestor of Aramaic and Hebrew is proto–Northwest Semitic; if you look at the classification in the article Semitic languages, cited to Hetzron (1997) among other sources, you will see that Aramaic and Hebrew belong to two different subfamilies of the Northwest Semitic group and are from that perspective more cousin ...
abba from Aramaic ܐܒܐ abba 'father' (AHD) abbé from Aramaic ܐܒܐ abba 'father' (AHD, MW) abbot from Aramaic ܐܒܐ abba 'father' (AHD, MW) abracadabra disputed (OED) + probably Balkan (WNW) + probably from Aramaic אבדא כדברא abhadda kedhabhra 'disappear as this word' (NI)
A good festival period A happy festival period [ˈmoʼed tov mo.aˈdim le simˈχa] Hebrew Used as a greeting during Chol HaMoed (the intermediate days) of Passover and Sukkot. Gut Yontev: גוט יום־טובֿ: Good holiday! [ɡut ˈjɔntɛv] Yiddish Used as a greeting for the holidays. [2] Often spelled Gut Yontif or Gut Yontiff in English ...
The word is derived from the Aramaic av meaning "father" or abba, meaning "my father" (it still has this meaning in contemporary Hebrew: אבא and Aramaic: ܐܒܐ) In the Septuagint, it was written as "abbas". [2] At first it was employed as a respectful title for any monk, but it was soon restricted by canon law to certain priestly superiors.