Given name · Yiddish
רפֿאל
רפֿאל (refoyl) is a masculine given name from Hebrew. It is used in Yiddish.
YiddishWritten in Hebrew script, read right to left. In English: Raphael.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Hebrew רָפָאֵל (rāfāʾēl); its root is Hebrew ר־פ־א.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
רפֿאל’s family of names
In Yiddish usage, רפֿאל has a conventional equivalent in the English form Raphael.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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