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Агавъ

“grasshopper”

Агавъ (Agavŭ) is a masculine given name from Old Church Slavonic, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Old Church Slavonic and Old East Slavic.

cu and orvWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Agavŭ.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Агавъ goes back to a word meaning “grasshopper.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where it comes from

Агавъ comes from Old Church Slavonic, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

Агавъ developed from Ἅγαβος.

Агавъ’s family of names

Агавъ developed from the Ancient Greek form Ἅγαβος. Агавъ can be written in the Roman alphabet as Agavŭ.

Walk Агавъ’s family in the name graph

АгавъAgavŭἍγαβος

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Around the world

Агавъ has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Slavic roots to each of them.

Proto-Slavic

2 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

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