Given name · Russian
Гамалиил
“God is reward”
Гамалиил (Gamaliíl) is a masculine given name from Old East Slavic, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Russian.
RussianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Gamaliíl.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Гамалиил goes back to Biblical Hebrew גַּמְלִיאֵל, meaning “God is reward.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Гамалиил comes from Old East Slavic, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Russian usage, Гамалиил developed from Γαμαλιήλ.
Гамалиил’s family of names
In Russian usage, Гамалиил developed from the Ancient Greek form Γαμαλιήλ. In Russian usage, Гамалиил can be written in the Roman alphabet as Gamaliíl.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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