Given name · Ancient Greek · gr
Ἀβραάμ
“father of many nations”
Ἀβραάμ (Abrāā́m) is a masculine given name from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Ancient Greek.
Ancient Greek and grWritten in Greek script. In English: Abraham.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ἀβραάμ goes back to Hebrew אברהם, meaning “father of many nations.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Ἀβραάμ’s family of names
In Ancient Greek usage, Ἀβραάμ has a later derivative in Abraham. In Ancient Greek usage, Ἀβραάμ has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form IBRAIM. In Ancient Greek usage, Ἀβραάμ has a conventional equivalent in the English form Abraham.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ἀβραάμ has relatives in 14 languages. Lines run from its Biblical Hebrew roots to each of them.
16 related names in 14 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Abrahamderivative · English, Maltese
- Avramborrowing · Serbo-Croatian, Romanian
- 亞伯拉罕Chinese
- Abromasderivative · Lithuanian
- Авраамderivative · Russian
- Аврамderivative · Serbo-Croatian
- Աբրահամborrowing · Classical Armenian
- AbrãoPortuguese
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