Names

Gabriel

The messenger angel of Daniel and of the Annunciation carries a name that means roughly 'God is my strength' or 'man of God'. In Islam the same angel is Jibrīl (Turkish Cebrail), who brings the Qur'an to Muhammad. The name also lives on in Armenian, Ethiopian Gäbrəʾel, Russian Gavriil, Serbian Gavrilo, Hungarian Gábor and Chinese Jiābǎiliè.

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The road to English

From Biblical Hebrew to Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, Turkish

From Late Latin to Italian

From Arabic to Persian

From Arabic to Malay

From Koine Greek to Ge'ez, Amharic

From Koine Greek to Armenian

From Koine Greek to Old Church Slavonic, Serbo-Croatian

From Old Church Slavonic to Russian

From Old Church Slavonic to Ukrainian

From Late Latin to Hungarian

From Late Latin to Old French, French

From Biblical Hebrew to Modern Hebrew

From Biblical Hebrew to Mandarin Chinese

165 BCEBiblical Hebrew

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.