Tobias

See also: Tobías, Tóbiás, and Tobiáš

English

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Tobias

Wikipedia

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek Τωβίας (Tōbías), from Hebrew טוֹבִיָּה (toviyá, literally “my good is YHWH”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /təˈbaɪəs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Proper noun

Tobias

The main character in the Book of Tobit, regarded as apocryphal by most Protestants (Biblical character).
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:
  : Tobit 5:16:
  Then said he to Tobias, Prepare thyself for the journey, and God send you a good journey. And when his son had prepared all things far the journey, his father said, Go thou with this man, and God, which dwelleth in heaven, prosper your journey, and the angel of God keep you company. So they went forth both, and the young man's dog with them.
A male given name from Hebrew.
A surname

Derived terms

Related terms

Tobiah
Toby

Translations

biblical character

Amharic: ጦቢያስ (ṭobiyas)
Arabic: طُوبِيَا m (ṭūbiyā)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Danish: Tobias c
Finnish: Tobias (fi)
French: Tobie (fr) m
German: Tobias (de) m
Greek: Τωβίας (el) m (Tovías)
Ancient Greek: Τωβίας m (Tōbías)
Hebrew: טוֹבִיָּה m (toviyá) טוּבִיָּה m (tuviyá)
Italian: Tobia (it) m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Tobias (no) m

Nynorsk: Tobias m
Polish: Tobiasz (pl) m
Portuguese: Tobias (pt) m
Russian: То́биас (ru) m anim (Tóbias), То́вия m anim (Tóvija), То́вий m anim (Tóvij)
Spanish: Tobías (es) m
Swedish: Tobia c
Ukrainian: То́вія m (Tóvija)

male given name

Czech: Tobiáš (cs) m
Danish: Tobias c
Finnish: Topias (fi)
French: Tobie (fr) m
German: Tobias (de) m
Greek: Τωβίας (el) m (Tovías)
Greenlandic: Tuppia
Hebrew: טוּבִיָּה m (tuviyá)
Hungarian: Tóbiás (hu)
Irish: Tóibias m
Italian: Tobia (it) m
Latin: Tobīās m
Māori: Topia
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Tobias (no) m

Nynorsk: Tobias m
Polish: Tobiasz (pl) m
Portuguese: Tobias (pt) m
Russian: То́биас (ru) m (Tóbias), Тоба́йес m (Tobájjes), Тоба́йас m (Tobájas)
Spanish: Tobías (es) m
Swedish: Tobias (sv)
Yiddish: טבֿיה m (tevye), טעוויע m (tevye) (Soviet phonetic spelling)

Anagrams

biotas

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

Tobias

Wikipedia ^da

Proper noun

Tobias

Tobias (biblical character)
a male given name

Descendants

→ Greenlandic: Tuppia

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

Tobias

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Τωβίας (Tōbías), from Hebrew טוֹבִיָּה (toviyá, literally “my good is YHWH”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtoː.bi.ɑs/
Hyphenation: To‧bi‧as
Audio: (file)

Proper noun

Tobias m

Tobias (Biblical character)
a male given name from Hebrew

Faroese

Faroese Wikipedia has an article on:

Tobias

Wikipedia ^fo

Proper noun

Tobias m

a male given name

Usage notes

Patronymics

Tobias's son: Tobiasarson or Tobiasson
Tobias's daughter: Tobiasardóttir or Tobiasdóttir

Declension

	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Tobias
accusative	Tobias
dative	Tobiasi
genitive	Tobiasar

German

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Tobias

Wikipedia ^de

Pronunciation

Audio (Germany (Berlin)): (file)

Proper noun

Tobias

Tobias (biblical character)
a male given name

Latin

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek Τωβίας (Tōbías), from Biblical Hebrew טוֹבִיָּה (toviyá, literally “my good is YHWH”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [toːˈbiː.aːs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [toˈbiː.as]

Proper noun

Tōbīās m sg (genitive Tōbīae); first declension

a male given name, equivalent to English Tobias or Toby

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ās), singular only.

	singular
nominative	Tōbīās
genitive	Tōbīae
dative	Tōbīae
accusative	Tōbīān
ablative	Tōbīā
vocative	Tōbīā

Descendants

→ Czech: Tobiáš
→ Danish: Tobias
- → Greenlandic: Tuppia
→ Dutch: Tobias
→ English: Tobias
→ Faroese: Tobias
→ Finnish: Topias
French: Tobie
→ German: Tobias
→ Hungarian: Tóbiás
→ Irish: Tóibias
Italian: Tobia
→ Māori: Topia
→ Norwegian: Tobias
→ Polish: Tobiasz
→ Portuguese: Tobias
→ Spanish: Tobías
→ Swedish: Tobias

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:

Tobias

Wikipedia ^nb

Proper noun

Tobias m

Tobias (biblical character)
a male given name

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

Tobias

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Proper noun

Tobias m

Tobias (biblical character)
a male given name

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /toˈbi.ɐs/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /toˈbi.ɐʃ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /toˈbi.as/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /tuˈbi.ɐʃ/ [tuˈβi.ɐʃ]

Hyphenation: To‧bi‧as

Proper noun

Tobias m (invariable)

a male given name
- 1943, André Luiz, Francisco Cândido Xavier, Nosso Lar:
  Ciente de que necessitaria permissão, entendi-me com Tobias a respeito.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
(biblical) Tobias (biblical character)
(biblical) Tobit (book of the Bible)

Coordinate terms

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

Tobias

Wikipedia ^sv

Alternative forms

Thobias

Proper noun

Tobias c (genitive Tobias)

Tobias (biblical character)
a male given name

Usage notes

Tobias was used as a Christian form of Torbjörn in the Middle Ages.

References

Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
[1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 31 196 males with the given name Tobias living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.