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• (as a given name): Debra, Debora

語源

From Hebrew דְבוֹרָה (dvorá), meaning bee.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈdɛb(ə)ɹə/

固有名詞

Deborah (plural Deborahs)

1. (biblical) A judge of Israel.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 4:4:
     :

     And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.

2. (biblical) A nurse of Rebecca.
3. A female given name from Hebrew, popular from the 1940s to the 1970s, first in the USA, then in the UK.
   • 1851, James Brayshay, The Protector of Houghall, Or the Lily and the Rose, Groombridge and Sons, act I:

     Rapier. Heigho! Deborah! it's an ugly name, a damnable name - the name I mean! - it sounds like Gomorrah! Deb! Debby! - worse still - sounded sharp now I rather like it! - Deborah! Deborah! Deborah!

   • 1995, Carl Hiaasen, Stormy Weather, Alfred A.Knopf,Inc., →ISBN, page 256:

     He hadn't known, for example, that her middle name was Deborah. It was a name he liked: plucky, Midwestern and reliable-sounding. He was willing to bet that if you went through every women's prison in America, you wouldn't find a half-dozen Deborahs.

   • 1995, “Disco 2000”, in Different Class, performed by Pulp:

     Your name is Deborah, Deborah / It never suited ya

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• Deb
• Debs
• Debbie
• Debby

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