Tobit

English

Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek Τωβίτ (Tōbít), from Hebrew טוֹבִי (tovi, literally “my good”).

Proper noun

Tobit

1. (biblical) A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
2. (rare) A male given name from Hebrew.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Tobit 1:3:

     I Tobit have walked all the days of my life in the ways of truth and justice, and I did many almsdeeds to my brethren, and my nation, who came with me to Nineve, into the land of the Assyrians.

Translations

the book of the Bible

• Arabic: سِفْر طُوبِيَا m (sifr ṭūbiyā)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܟܬܒܐ ܕܛܘܒܝܛ

• Armenian: Թոբիթ (Tʿobitʿ)
• Asturian: Tobíes (ast)
• Catalan: Llibre de Tobies m
• German: Tobit m, Tobias (de) m
• Greek: Τωβίτ (el) m (Tovít)
• Hebrew: טוֹבִי m (tovi)
• Polish: Księga Tobiasza f, Księga Tobita f
• Romanian: Tobit m
• Russian: Книга Товита f (Kniga Tovita)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Књига о Товиту f, Тобијa m

  Roman: Knjiga o Tobitu f, Tobija (sh) m

• Spanish: Tobías (es) m

male given name

• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܛܘܒܝܛ

• German: Tobias (de) m
• Greek: Τωβίτ (el) m (Tovít)
• Polish: Tobiasz (pl) m
• Spanish: Tobías (es) m

Etymology 2

Coined by A. S. Goldberg in 1964 as these type of models were first proposed by James Tobin and are similar to probit models.

Noun

Tobit (uncountable)

1. (statistics) a model where the dependent variable is censored.

Anagrams

• Botti, bitto