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Аврам
“father”
Аврам (Avram) is a masculine given name from Old Church Slavonic, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Russian, Ukrainian, Macedonian, and Serbo-Croatian.
Bulgarian and Macedonian and Russian and Serbian and Serbo-Croatian and UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Abraham.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Аврам goes back to Ancient Greek Ἀβραάμ, meaning “father.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Аврам comes from Old Church Slavonic, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Serbo-Croatian usage, Аврам developed from אברהם. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Аврам developed from Ἀβραάμ.
Аврам’s family of names
In Serbo-Croatian usage, Аврам developed from the Hebrew form אברהם. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Аврам has a conventional equivalent in the English form Abraham. In Macedonian usage, Аврам can be written in the Roman alphabet as Avram.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Аврам has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Slavic roots to each of them.
6 related names in 8 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Аврам
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