Abrahamとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Late Latin Ābraham, from Ancient Greek Ἀβραάμ (Abraám), from Hebrew אַבְרָהָם‎ (aḇrāˈhām, “Abraham”). Glossed as אַב‎ (aḇ, “father of”) + הֲמוֹן‎ (hăˈmōn, “multitude of”) in Genesis 17:4–5; or from Hebrew אַבְרָם‎ (aˈḇrām, “Abram”). Doublet of Ibrahim.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.bɹə.hæm/, (まれに) /ˈɑː.bɹə.hæm/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.bɹəˌhæm/, /ˈeɪ.bɹə.həm/

固有名詞

Abraham (複数形 Abrahams)

1. (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Baha'i) A prophet in the Old Testament, Qur'an and Aqdas; a Semitic patriarch who preached monotheism, father of the Jewish patriarch Isaac and the Arab patriarch Ishmael. [First attested prior to 1150.]^[1]
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Genesis 17:5:

     Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

   • 1980, Werner Keller, The Bible as History (tr. by William Neil), chapter 7, page 93:

     As one would expect of caravan people around 1900 B.C., the caravan people depicted in the Khnum-hotpe grave had donkeys, whereas the Bible says that Abraham and his people, who according to the traditional interpretation are supposed to have lived at the same period, already possessed camels.

   Synonyms: Abram, Ibrahim

2. A male given name from Hebrew. [First attested prior to 1150.]^[1]
   • 1961, Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night, Dell (1975), page 28:

     "Lincoln wasn't a Jew, was he?" he said. "I'm sure not," I said. […] "The name Abraham is very suspicious, to say the least," said Goebbels. "I'm sure his parents didn't realize that it was a Jewish name," I said. "They must have just liked the sound of it. They were simple frontier people. If they'd known the name was Jewish, I'm sure they would have called him something more American, like George or Stanley or Fred."

3. A patronymic surname​. [First attested prior to 1150.]^[1]
4. The 14th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

派生語

関連する語

• (pet forms): Abe, Abey, Abie
• (male given names): Abram, Bram, Avram
• (surnames): Abrahams

名詞

Abraham (複数形 Abrahams)

1. (archaic, 英国用法 スラング, chiefly London) A shop selling cheap and low-quality clothes, especially in the East End of London.^[2][3]

   Synonym: slopshop

参照

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.bra.haːm/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.bra.am/, [ˈaː.bra.am]

固有名詞

Ābrahām m (variously declined, genitive Ābrahām または Ābrahae); indeclinable, first declension

1. (biblical) Abraham
   • Vulgate Liber Genesis 17:5

     nec ultra vocabitur nomen tuum Abram, sed appellaberis Abraham quia patrem multarum gentium constitui te.

語形変化

Indeclinable noun or first-declension noun (nominative/vocative 単数形 in -ām).

参照

• Abraham in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Abraham in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

語源

From Latin Ābrahām.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑb.rɑ.xɑm/, [ˈɑb.rɑ.hɑm]

固有名詞

Abraham m

1. Abraham