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Gabriel
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English
Etymology
From Latin Gabriel, from Ancient Greek Γαβρῑήλ (Gabrīḗl), from Hebrew גַּבְרִיאֵל (gaḇrīʾḗl, “God is my strong man”), from גֶּבֶר (géver, “strong man, hero”) and אֵל (ʾēl, “God, deity”), from Proto-Semitic *ʾil-. Doublet of Jibril.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡeɪ.bɹi.əl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Proper noun
Gabriel
- A male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew].
- 1629, Thomas Adams, Meditations upon Creed, The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 212:
- Yea, it seems to me not fit for Christian humility to call a man Gabriel or Michael, giving the names of angels to the sons of mortality.
- 1986, Paul Bailey, Gabriel's Lament, Viking, published 1987, →ISBN, page 20:
- "I'm the only Gabriel in the whole school," I told my father. "You don't have to whisper it from the tomb, lad. You should thank your mother and me for giving you a handle that people notice. You ought to be pleased, not down in the dumps. Backstreet Gabriels aren't bumped into on every corner, remember.
- An archangel associated in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, with carrying messages from God.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 9:21::
- Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:26::
- And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
- 1629, Thomas Adams, Meditations upon Creed, The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 212:
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
Derived terms
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Translations
male given name
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archangel
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- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
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Catalan
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Gabriel m
- a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Gabriel
Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Gabriel m anim
- a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Gabriel
Declension
Declension of Gabriel (hard masculine animate)
Proper noun
Gabriel m anim (female equivalent Gabrielová)
- a male surname, feminine equivalent Gabrielová
Declension
Declension of Gabriel (hard masculine animate)
Further reading
- “Gabriel”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)
Danish
Proper noun
Gabriel (m)
- a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Gabriel
Faroese
Proper noun
Gabriel m
- a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Gabriel
Usage notes
Patronymics
- son of Gabriel: Gabrielsson
- daughter of Gabriel: Gabrielsdóttir
Declension
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Finnish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Γαβρῑήλ (Gabrīḗl), from Biblical Hebrew גַּבְרִיאֵל (gaḇrīʾḗl).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Gabriel
- a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Gabriel
Declension
Related terms
Statistics
- Gabriel is the 345th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 1,045 male individuals (and as a middle name to 3,463 more, making it more common as a middle name), and also belongs to 6 female individuals (and as a middle name to 16 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
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French
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Gabriel m
- a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], feminine equivalent Gabrielle, equivalent to English Gabriel
Related terms
Descendants
- → Alemannic German: Gaabi
German
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Gabriel m (proper noun, strong, genitive Gabriels)
- a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], feminine equivalent Gabriele, equivalent to English Gabriel
Declension
Declension of Gabriel [sg-only, masculine, strong]
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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Γαβρῑήλ (Gabrīḗl), from Biblical Hebrew גַּבְרִיאֵל (Gaḇrīʾḗl, “God is my strong man”), from גֶּבֶר (géver, “strong man, hero”) and אֵל (ʾēl, “God”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɡaˈbriː.eːɫ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ɡaˈbriː.el]
- Scanned as a molossus in Prudentius. Moreover, it was perhaps pronounced with final accent in late Latin.
Proper noun
Gabrīēl m sg (genitive Gabrīēl or Gabrīēlis); indeclinable, variously declined, third declension
- a male given name from Ancient Greek [in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Gabriel
Declension
Indeclinable noun or third-declension noun, singular only.
Descendants
- → Albanian: Gabriel
- → Catalan: Gabriel, Biel
- → Czech: Gabriel
- → Danish: Gabriel
- → Dutch: Gabriël
- Afrikaans: Gabriël
- → English: Gabriel
- → Hawaiian: Kapeliela
- → Maori: Kaperiere
- → Faroese: Gabriel, Gabrial, Brialdur
- → Finnish: Gabriel, Kaaperi, Kaapre, Kaaprel, Kaaprelli, Kaapo
- → French: Gabriel
- → Alemannic German: Gaabi
- → Galician: Gabriel
- → Georgian: გაბრიელი (gabrieli)
- → German: Gabriel
- → Greenlandic: Kaapriale, Kapriali, Kaparialli
- → Gujarati: ગેબ્રિયલ (gebriyal)
- → Hindi: गेब्रियल (gebriyal)
- → Hungarian: Gabór, Gábriel
- → Icelandic: Gabríel
- → Irish: Gaibrial, Gaibriéil, Gaibriél
- → Italian: Gabriele
- → Japanese: ガブリエル (Gaburieru)
- → Kannada: ಗೇಬ್ರಿಯಲ್ (gēbriyal)
- → Korean: 가브리엘 (Gabeuriel)
- → Latvian: Gabriels
- → Lithuanian: Gabrielius
- → Maltese: Gabrijel
- → Norman: Gabriel
- → Norwegian: Gabriel
- → Persian: گابریل (gâbriel)
- → Polish: Gabriel
- → Portuguese: Gabriel, Biel
- → Romanian: Gabriel
- → Serbo-Croatian: Gabrijel
- → Slovak: Gabriel
- → Slovene: Gabrijel
- → Spanish: Gabriel
- → Swedish: Gabriel, Gabrel
- → Welsh: Gabriel
References
- “Gabriel”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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Norman
Proper noun
Gabriel m
- a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Gabriel
Norwegian
Proper noun
Gabriel
- a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Gabriel
Polish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Latin Gabriēl.
Proper noun
Gabriel m pers (female equivalent Gabriela, diminutive Gabryś)
- a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Gabriel
Declension
Declension of Gabriel
Related terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Proper noun
Gabriel f
Further reading
- Gabriel in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese Gabrïél.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Gabriel m (plural Gabriéis, feminine Gabriela, feminine plural Gabrielas)
- a male given name from Hebrew, feminine equivalent Gabriela, equivalent to English Gabriel
- (biblical) Gabriel (archangel)
- a surname
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “Gabriel”, in Dicionário infopédia de Antroponímia (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
Slovak
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Gabriel m pers
- a male given name from Ancient Greek [in turn from Hebrew], feminine equivalent Gabriela, equivalent to English Gabriel
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “Gabriel”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025
Spanish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Gabriel m
- a male given name from Ancient Greek [in turn from Hebrew], feminine equivalent Gabriela, equivalent to English Gabriel
- a surname originating as a patronymic
Related terms
Swedish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Gabriel c (genitive Gabriels)
- a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Gabriel
Derived terms
Related terms
- Gabriella (diminutive)
Tagalog
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ɡabɾiˈel/ [ɡɐbˈɾjɛl]
- Rhymes: -el
- Syllabification: Gab‧ri‧el
Proper noun
Gabriél (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜊ᜔ᜇᜒᜌᜒᜎ᜔)
- (biblical) Gabriel (archangel)
- a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Gabriel
- a surname from Spanish
Related terms
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Gabriel is the 108th most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 54,263 individuals.
Anagrams
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