ח־ב־ר

ḥ-b-r “to join, be associated”

Hebrew ḥāḇēr 'companion' went through Yiddish into English chaver, Dutch thieves' cant gabber (and Rotterdam's gabber music) and Hungarian haver 'buddy'. The city Hebron, Ḥeḇrôn, is probably 'alliance' from the same root. 'Hebrew' itself, ʿIḇrî, is a different root (ʿ-b-r 'cross over').

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Words from this root 4

chaverBiblical Hebrew → Mishnaic Hebrew → Yiddish → American English
gabberBiblical Hebrew → Yiddish → Dutch
haverBiblical Hebrew → Yiddish → Hungarian
HebronBiblical Hebrew → Koine Greek → Late Latin → English

Relatives outside the atlas

Biblical Hebrew	חָבַר	ḥāḇar	“to be joined, allied”
Modern Hebrew	חֶבְרָה	ḥevra	“society; company”
Modern Hebrew	חֲבוּרָה	ḥavura	“fellowship, small group”
Modern Hebrew	חִבּוּר	ḥibbur	“joining; composition”
Aramaic	חַבְרָא	ḥaḇrāʾ	“companion”
Arabic	حَبْر	ḥabr	“Jewish scholar (an early borrowing from Hebrew/Aramaic)”