Gabe

See also: Appendix:Variations of "gabe"

English

Etymology 1

See Gabriel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡeɪb/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪb

Proper noun

Gabe

1. A diminutive of the male given name Gabriel.
   • 1938 February 12, Sophie Kerr, “Cupboard Lover”, in Saturday Evening Post‎^[1], volume 210, number 33, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 42:

     A pretty country girl, brisk and industrious, might lack the worldly polish and refinement necessary to shine in Crailsboro society, but Mr. Dinnock would train her, just as he had trained shiftless, dirty Gabe Jones to be a clean smart clerk in the store.

   • 2000 April 3, Dave Bursky, “Standard Takes Aim At Game Playing Over The Internet”, in Electronic Design‎^[2], volume 48, number 7, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 42:

     These are just a few of the issues PowerPlay 1.0 is tackling. For a full copy of the working document, contact Gabe Newell, the managing director for Valve at (425) 889-9642, ext. 101 or gaben@valvesoftware.com.

Etymology 2

Various origins:

• Borrowed from German Gabe, from a short form of several personal names beginning with the Proto-Germanic element *gabį̄ (“wealth, riches”).
• Borrowed from French Gabe, perhaps a nickname from Old French gabe (“joke”), from the verb gaber (“to tell jokes”).
• English surname, from a pet form of the personal name Gabriel, or alternatively a nickname from Middle English gabbe (“falsehood, deceit, lie”).

Proper noun

Gabe (plural Gabes)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Gabe is the 40856^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 534 individuals. Gabe is most common among White (76.22%) and Black/African American (10.11%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Gabe”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 1.

Anagrams

• Bega, EGBA, Egba, beag, bega

German

Alternative forms

• Gaabe (obsolete)

Etymology

From geben (“give”), also inherited from Middle High German gābe, from Old High German *gāba, from Proto-West Germanic *gābā, from Proto-Germanic *gēbǭ (“gift, giving”), from *gebaną whence English give.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːbə/

• Audio (Austria):

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• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Hyphenation: Ga‧be
• Rhymes: -aːbə
• Homophone: Garbe (nonstandard)

Noun

Gabe f (genitive Gabe, plural Gaben)

1. gift, present, donation, alms
2. administration, dose (act of giving medication)

Declension

Declension of Gabe [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Gabe	die	Gaben
genitive	einer	der	Gabe	der	Gaben
dative	einer	der	Gabe	den	Gaben
accusative	eine	die	Gabe	die	Gaben

Derived terms

• Abgabe f
• Angabe f
• Auffassungsgabe f
• Aufgabe f
• Ausgabe f
• Beigabe f
• Eingabe f
• Maßgabe f
• Mitgabe f
• Übergabe f
• Vergabe f
• Vorgabe f
• Zurückgabe f

Related terms

• Gabenbringer, Gabenspender, Gabenfresser
• geben (“give”)

Further reading

• “Gabe” in Duden online
• “Gabe”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[3] (in German)