Gabriel

English

Etymology

From Hebrew גבריאל (Gavrie’l, “man of God”), from גֶּבֶר (géver, “man”) and אֵל (el, “God”).

Proper noun

Gabriel

1. A male given name.
   • 1629, Thomas Adams, Meditations upon Creed, The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 212:

     Yea, it seems to me not fit for Christian humility to call a man Gabriel or Michael, giving the names of angels to the sons of mortality.

   • 1986, Paul Bailey, Gabriel's Lament, Viking (1987), ISBN 0670816566, page 20:

     "I'm the only Gabriel in the whole school," I told my father. "You don't have to whisper it from the tomb, lad. You should thank your mother and me for giving you a handle that people notice. You ought to be pleased, not down in the dumps. Backstreet Gabriels aren't bumped into on every corner, remember.

2. An archangel associated, in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, with carrying messages from God.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version), Daniel 9:21:

     Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version), Luke 1:26:

     And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,

3. A patronymic surname.

Related terms

• pet form: Gabe
• female given names: Gabriela, Gabriella, Gabrielle

Translations

male given name

• Arabic: جبريل (ar) (jibrīl), جبرائيل (ar) (jabrā'īl), جبريال (ar) (gabryāl), غبريال (ar) (gabryāl) m
• Armenian: Գաբրիել (hy) (Gabriel)
• Czech: Gabriel (cs)
• Danish: Gabriel (da)
• Finnish: Kaapo (fi)
• French: Gabriel (fr)
• German: Gabriel (de)
• Hawaiian: Kapeliela
• Hungarian: Gábor (hu)
• Italian: Gabriele (it)
• Japanese: ガブリエル (ja) (Gaburieru)

• Latin: Gabriel (la) m
• Macedonian: Гаврил (mk) (Gávril)
• Malay: Jibril (ms)
• Maltese: Gabriel (mt)
• Norwegian: Gabriel (no)
• Persian: جبرئیل (fa) (Jebra'īl), (prescriptive) جبرییل (fa) (Jebrayīl), (literally) جبریل (fa) (Jebrīl), گابریل (fa) (Gâbriel)
• Polish: Gabriel (pl) m
• Portuguese: Gabriel (pt)
• Russian: Гавриил (ru) (Gavriíl)
• Spanish: Gabriel (es)
• Swedish: Gabriel (sv)

archangel

• Arabic: جبريل (ar) (jibrīl), جبرائيل (ar) (jabrā'īl), جبريال (ar) (gabryāl), غبريال (ar) (gabryāl), جبرئيل (ar) (jabra'īl) m
• Armenian: Գաբրիել (hy) (Gabriel)
• Azeri: Cəbrayıl (az)
• Czech: Gabriel (cs) m
• Danish: Gabriel (da)
• Finnish: Gabriel (fi)
• French: Gabriel (fr)
• German: Gabriel (de)
• Hawaiian: Gaberiela
• Hungarian: Gábriel (hu)

• Italian: Gabriele (it)
• Macedonian: Гаврил (mk) (Gávril) (Judaism, Christianity), Џибрил (mk) (Džíbril) (Islam)
• Malay: Jibril (ms)
• Norwegian: Gabriel (no)
• Persian: جبرئیل (fa) (Jebra'il)
• Portuguese: Gabriel (pt)
• Russian: Гавриил (ru) (Gavriil)
• Spanish: Gabriel (es)
• Swedish: Gabriel (sv)
• Turkish: Cebrail (tr), Cebrâil (tr)

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• Hebrew: גבריאל

• Turkish: Cebrail

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Czech

Wikipedia ^cs

Proper noun

Gabriel m

1. A male given name, cognate to Gabriel.

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Danish

Proper noun

Gabriel

1. Gabriel (Archangel)
2. A male given name.

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Finnish

Proper noun

Gabriel

1. Gabriel (Archangel)
2. A male given name.

Declension

Declension of Gabriel (type risti) singular plural nominative Gabriel Gabrielit genitive Gabrielin Gabrielien partitive Gabrielia Gabrieleja accusative Gabriel Gabrielin Gabrielit inessive Gabrielissa Gabrieleissa elative Gabrielista Gabrieleista illative Gabrieliin Gabrieleihin adessive Gabrielilla Gabrieleilla ablative Gabrielilta Gabrieleilta allative Gabrielille Gabrieleille essive Gabrielina Gabrieleina translative Gabrieliksi Gabrieleiksi instructive – Gabrielein abessive Gabrielitta Gabrieleitta comitative – Gabrieleineen

Related terms

• male given names: Kaapo, Kaapro

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French

Proper noun

Gabriel

1. Gabriel (Archangel).
2. A male given name.

Related terms

• female given name: Gabrielle

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German

Proper noun

Gabriel

1. Gabriel (Archangel)
2. A male given name

Related terms

• feminine form: Gabriele

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Gothic

Romanization

Gabriēl

1. See 𐌲𐌰𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌴𐌻

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Norman

Proper noun

Gabriel m

1. A male given name, equivalent to English Gabriel.

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Gabriel

1. Gabriel (Archangel).
2. A male given name.

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Spanish

Proper noun

Gabriel (m)

1. Gabriel (Archangel).
2. A male given name.

Related terms

• female given name: Gabriela

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Swedish

Proper noun

Gabriel

1. Gabriel (Archangel).
2. A male given name.

Related terms

• female given name: Gabriella