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Авакум
Авакум (Avakúm) is a masculine given name from Biblical Hebrew, ultimately from Greek. It is used in Bulgarian.
Bulgarian and Serbian and UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Avakum.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Авакум comes from Biblical Hebrew, and ultimately from Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Biblical Hebrew חֲבַקּוּק (khavakúk), from Ancient Greek Ἀμβακοὺμ, from Greek Αββακούμ.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Авакум’s family of names
In Bulgarian usage, Авакум shares a linguistic root with the Russian form Аввакум. In Bulgarian usage, Авакум has a transliteration in Avakum. In Bulgarian usage, Авакум can be written in the Roman alphabet as Avakúm.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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