אב

From Akkadian 𒌚𒉈 (Abum).

אַב • (ʾaḇ) m

1. absolute form of אַבָּא (ʾabbā)

אָב • (ʾāv) m

1. August
2. Av

• Classical Syriac: ܐܒ (ʾāv)
  • Arabic: آب (ʔāb)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܵܒ (āb)
• Turoyo: ܐܳܒ (ob)

• “ˀb²”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[1], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 1

From Proto-Semitic *ʔabw-. Doublet of אַבָּא (ába), which was borrowed from Aramaic. Cognate with Arabic أب.

• (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʔaːb/, [ʔaːβ]
• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈʔɔːv/ [ˈʔɔːv]
• (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈʔɔv/ [ˈʔɔːv]
• (Iraqi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈʔab/
• (Syrian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈʔab/
• (Sephardi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈʔab/
• (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈ(ʔ)ɔv/
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈ(ʔ)av/

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אָב • (áv) m (plural indefinite אָבוֹת, singular construct אֲבִי־, feminine counterpart אֵם)

1. father (a male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.))
   • 2016, March 31, nrg

     יו״ר מרצ גלאון אמרה בעקבות שיחתו של נתניהו עם אבי החייל היורה מחברון: […]

     Yo"R [yoshévet rósh] mérets gal'ón am'rá b'ik'vót sikható shel n'tanyáhu im aví hakhayál hayoré mekhevrón: […]

     Chairman of Meretz Gal-On said, following Netanyahu's conversation with the father of the shooting soldier from Hebron: […]

2. ancestor, forefather
3. progenitor
4. originator
5. prototype

• In Modern Hebrew, the singular construct form אַב is also used.

• H1 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

אַב • (av)

1. singular construct state form of אָב (av)‎.

From Akkadian 𒌚𒉈 (Abum).

אָב • (áv) m

1. (Judaism) Av (the eleventh month of the civil year and the fifth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Tammuz and before Elul)
   • a. 217 C.E., Mishnah. Ta'anit, section 4.6:

     חֲמִשָּׁה דְבָרִים אֵרְעוּ אֶת אֲבוֹתֵינוּ בְּשִׁבְעָה עָשָׂר בְּתַמּוּז וַחֲמִשָּׁה בְּתִשְׁעָה בְאָב.

     Ḥamishá d'varím er'ú et avoténu b-shiv'a asár b-Tammúz, va-ḥamishá b-tish'á b-Av.

     Five things befell our ancestors on the seventeenth of Tammuz, and five things on the ninth of Av.

   • a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud. Ta'anit, 29a:

     אָמַר רַב יְהוּדָה בְּרֵיהּ דְּרַב שְׁמוּאֵל בַּר שִׁילַת מִשְּׁמֵיהּ דְּרַב: כְּשֵׁם שֶׁמִּשֶּׁנִּכְנַס אָב מְמַעֲטִין בְּשִׂמְחָה — כָּךְ מִשֶּׁנִּכְנַס אֲדָר מַרְבִּין בְּשִׂמְחָה.

     amár rav y'hudá b'reh d'rav shmu'él bar shilát mi-shmeh d'rav: k-shem she-mi-she-nikhnás av m'ma'tín b-simkhá — kakh mi-she-nikhnás adár marbín b-simkhá.

     Said R. Judah son of Rav Shmuel son of Sheilath, in the name of Rav: just as when Av comes one decreases rejoicing, so too when Adar comes one increases rejoicing.

• תִּשְׁעָה בְּאָב (tish'a b'áv)

• English: Av, Ab
• German: Aw

• אב on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he

Related to Akkadian 𒄧 (inbum), Arabic أَبّ (ʔabb, “meadow”), Aramaic אִנְבָּא.

• (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʔib/
• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈʔeːv/, [ˈʔeː.ev]
• (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈʔev/, [ˈʔeːv]
• (Iraqi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʔeb/
• (Syrian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)eb/
• (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)ejv/
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)ev/

אֵב • (év) m (plural indefinite איבים / אִבִּים) [pattern: קֵטֶל]

1. swelling, spreading.
2. the young shoots of a tree, opposed to the branches growing directly from the trunk.
   • Tanach, Song of Songs 6:11, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     אֶל־גִּנַּת אֱגוֹז יָרַדְתִּי לִרְאוֹת בְּאִבֵּי הַנָּחַל

     el-ginát egóz yarádti lir'ot b'ibé hanákhal

     I went down into the garden of nuts, to look at the green plants of the valley

3. (in the plural) state of growth, development

• אֲבָבִית (avavít)

• בא