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Јаков
“heel grabber”·“supplanter”
Јаков (Jakov) is a masculine given name from Old Church Slavonic, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Macedonian and Serbo-Croatian.
Macedonian and Serbian and Serbo-CroatianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Jacob.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Јаков is Jakov written in Cyrillic. Jakov is a variant of Jacob. Traditional interpretations include “heel grabber” and “supplanter”—someone who takes another’s place. Both come from the biblical narrative, while the name’s original linguistic derivation remains debated.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Јаков comes from Old Church Slavonic, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Macedonian usage, Јаков developed from Ἰάκωβος.
Јаков’s family of names
In Macedonian usage, Јаков developed from the Ancient Greek form Ἰάκωβος. In Macedonian usage, Јаков has a conventional equivalent in the English form Jacob. In Serbian usage, Јаков has a related form in Jakov.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Јаков has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Slavic roots to each of them.
5 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
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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