אב

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Contents 1 Aramaic 1.1 Noun 1.2 Proper noun 1.3 References 2 Hebrew 2.1 Etymology 1 2.1.1 Noun 2.2 Etymology 2 2.2.1 Noun 2.3 Etymology 3 2.3.1 Noun 2.3.2 See also 2.4 Anagrams

[edit] Aramaic

[edit] Noun

אב m.

1. absolute form of אבא

[edit] Proper noun

אב m.

1. August

[edit] References

• Marcus Jastrow, A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, 1903

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[edit] Hebrew

[edit] Etymology 1

From Proto-Semitic *ʾab-.

[edit] Noun

אָב (āv) m.

1. father, ancestor, progenitor.
2. teacher.
3. chief, leader.
4. author, originator.

[edit] Etymology 2

From Akkadian 𒉈 (Abu).

[edit] Noun

אָב (āv) m.

1. Ab, the fifth month of the Jewish calendar (of thirty days) beginning between the eighth of July and the seventh of August, and ending between the sixth of August and the fifth of September.

[edit] Etymology 3

[edit] Noun

אֵב (ēv) m.; also איב (ēv)

1. swelling, spreading.
2. the young shoots of a tree, opposed to the branches growing directly from the trunk.
3. (pl.: אִבִּין [ibin], אִיבִּין [ibin]) state of growth, development.

[edit] See also

• אִיבָּא

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of אב
• בא