English

Abraham Sends Hagar and Ishmael Away (Gen. 21:1-14)

Proper noun

Abraham ‎(plural Abrahams)

1. (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Baha'i) A prophet in the Old Testament, Qur'an and Aqdas; a Semitic patriarch who preached monotheism, father of the Jewish patriarch Isaac and the Arab patriarch Ishmael. [First attested prior to 1150.]^[1]
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Genesis 17:5:

     Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but they name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

   • 1980, Werner Keller, The Bible as History (tr. by William Neil), chapter 7, page 93:

     As one would expect of caravan people around 1900 B.C., the caravan people depicted in the Khnum-hotpe grave had donkeys, whereas the Bible says that Abraham and his people, who according to the traditional interpretation are supposed to have lived at the same period, already possessed camels.

2. A male given name. [First attested prior to 1150.]^[1]
   • 1961, Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night, Dell (1975), page 28:

     "Lincoln wasn't a Jew, was he?" he said. "I'm sure not," I said. - - - "The name Abraham is very suspicious, to say the least," said Goebbels. "I'm sure his parents didn't realize that it was a Jewish name," I said. "They must have just liked the sound of it. They were simple frontier people. If they'd known the name was Jewish, I'm sure they would have called him something more American, like George or Stanley or Fred."

3. A patronymic surname​. [First attested prior to 1150.]^[1]
4. The 14th sura (chapter) of the Quran

Synonyms

• (Semitic patriarch): Abram

Derived terms

• Abrahamic
• Gaybraham
• Abrahamist
• abraham grains
• Abraham man
• Abraham's balsam
• Abraham's willing

Related terms

• (pet forms) Abe, Abey, Abie
• (male given names) Abram, Bram, Avram
• (surnames) Abrahams

Translations

Noun

Abraham ‎(plural Abrahams)

1. (archaic, British slang, chiefly London) A shop selling cheap and low-quality clothes, especially in the East End of London.^[2][3]

Synonyms

• slopshop

References

1. 1 2 3 Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 7
2. ↑ Barrère, Albert; Leland, Charles Godfrey (1889) A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume 1, page 7
3. ↑ Farmer, John Stephen (1890) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 1, page 9

Catalan

Proper noun

Abraham m

1. A male given name, cognate of English Abraham
2. Abraham (Biblical character)

Czech

Alternative forms

• Abrahám

Proper noun

Abraham m

1. Abraham (a prophet in the Old Testament)
2. Abraham (male given name)

Dutch

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Abraham m

1. A male given name of biblical origin.

Related terms

• Ab, Ap, Appie, Bram, Brammetje, Brampie, Abram

Ewe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæbræhæm/

Proper noun

Abraham

1. Abraham (Biblical character)
2. A male given name

Quotations

• Eʋe Biblia (Bible Society of Ghana) — Eyata womagayɔ wò bena Abram akpɔ o, ke boŋ Abraham anye wò ŋkɔ. Mose I 17:5

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.bra.am/

Proper noun

Abraham m

1. Abraham (Biblical character)
2. A male given name

German

Proper noun

Abraham m ‎(genitive Abrahams)

1. Abraham (Biblical character)
2. A male given name

Related terms

• Abe, Abi, Bram, Abbe, Abbo

Gothic

Romanization

Abraham

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌼

Latin

Proper noun

Ābrahām m ‎(indeclinable)
Ābrahām m ‎(genitive Ābrahae); first declension

1. Abraham (Biblical character)
   • Vulgate Liber Genesis 17:5

     nec ultra vocabitur nomen tuum Abram, sed appellaberis Abraham quia patrem multarum gentium constitui te.

Inflection

Ābrahām may be indeclinable or declined as a first declension noun.
First declension, nominative/vocative singular in -ām.

References

• Abraham in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Abraham”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Polish

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Abraham m

1. Abraham (Biblical figure)
2. Abraham (male given name)

Declension

Scots

Proper noun

Abraham

1. Abraham

Spanish

Alternative forms

• Abrahán

Proper noun

Abraham m

1. Abraham (Biblical character)
   • 1602, La Santa Biblia (antigua versión de Casiodoro de Reina), rev., Génesis 17:5:

     Y no se llamará más tu nombre Abram, sino que será tu nombre Abraham, porque te he puesto por padre de muchedumbre de gentes.

Swedish

Proper noun

Abraham

1. A male given name
2. Abraham (Biblical figure)