Английская Википедия:Abram (name)
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Abram is a male given name of Akkadian origin,[1][2] meaning exalted father in much later languages.[3][4] In the Bible, it was originally the name of the first of the three Biblical patriarchs, who later became known as Abraham.
Russian name
The Russian language borrowed the name from Byzantine Christianity, but its popularity, along with other Biblical first names, declined by the mid-19th century.[2] The forms used by the Russian Orthodox church were "Шаблон:Lang" (Avraam),[2][5] "Шаблон:Lang" (Avraamy),[5] and "Шаблон:Lang" (Avramy),[6] but "Шаблон:Lang" (Abram) remained a popular colloquial variant.[2][4] Other colloquial forms included "Шаблон:Lang" (Abramy),[4] "Шаблон:Lang" (Avram),[6] and "Шаблон:Lang" (Obram).[6] Until the end of the 19th century, the official Synodal Menologium also included the form "Шаблон:Lang" (Abrakham).[7]
The patronymics derived from "Abram" are "Шаблон:Lang" (Abramovich; masculine) and its colloquial form "Шаблон:Lang" (Abramych), and "Шаблон:Lang" (Abramovna; feminine).[4] The patronymics derived from "Abramy" are "Шаблон:Lang" (Abramiyevich; masculine) and "Шаблон:Lang" (Abramiyevna; feminine).[4] The patronymics derived from "Avraam" are "Шаблон:Lang" (Avraamovich; masculine) and "Шаблон:Lang" (Avraamovna; feminine).[4] The patronymics derived from "Avraamy" are "Шаблон:Lang" (Avraamiyevich; masculine) and "Шаблон:Lang" (Avraamiyevna; feminine).[4] The patronymics derived from "Avram" are "Шаблон:Lang" (Avramovich; masculine) and "Шаблон:Lang" (Avramovna; feminine).[4] The patronymics derived from "Avraamy" are "Шаблон:Lang" (Avraamiyevich; masculine) and "Шаблон:Lang" (Avraamiyevna; feminine).[4]
The diminutives of "Avraam" and "Avraamy" include "Шаблон:Lang" (Avraamka), "Шаблон:Lang" (Avramka), "Шаблон:Lang" (Avraakha), "Шаблон:Lang" (Avrakha), "Шаблон:Lang" (Avraasha), and "Шаблон:Lang" (Avrasha).[4] The diminutives of "Abram" include "Шаблон:Lang" (Abramka), "Шаблон:Lang" (Abrakha), and "Шаблон:Lang" (Abrasha).[4] The diminutives of "Avram" include "Шаблон:Lang" (Avramka), "Шаблон:Lang" (Avrakha), "Шаблон:Lang" (Avrasha), and "Шаблон:Lang" (Ava).[4]
People with the given name Abram
- Abram Piatt Andrew (Jr.) (1873–1936), United States Representative from Massachusetts
- Abram Samoilovich Besicovitch (Bezikovich) (1891–1970), Russian mathematician
- Abram Blass (born 1895), Polish-Israeli chess master
- Abram Bergson (1914–2003), American economist
- Abram Chasins (1903–1987), American composer, pianist, piano teacher, lecturer, musicologist, music broadcaster, radio executive and author
- Abram Comingo (1820–1889), Democratic Representative
- Abram Duryée (1815–1890), Union Army general
- Abram Elam (born 1981), American football safety
- Abram Fitkin (1878 – 1933) American minister, businessman and philanthropist
- Abram Fulkerson (1834–1902), Confederate officer
- Abram Petrovich Gannibal (1696–1781), Afro-Russian nobleman, military engineer and general of Ethiopian origin
- Abram Grushko (1918–1980), Russian painter and art teacher
- Abram D. Harlan (1833–1908), American politician from Pennsylvania
- Abram Lincoln Harris (1899–1963), African American economist, academic, and anthropologist
- Abram Harrison (1898–1979), Canadian politician
- Abram Stevens Hewitt (1822–1903), teacher, lawyer, iron manufacturer, and chairman
- Abram Hoffer (1917–2009), Canadian psychiatrist
- Abram Fedorovich Ioffe (1860–1960), prominent Russian/Soviet physicist
- Abram Jakira (1889–1931), American socialist political activist, newspaper editor, and Communist Party functionary
- Abram Kofman (1865-1940), Russian Esperantist poet
- Abram Lyle (1820-1891), Scottish businessman
- Abram F. Myers (born 1889), chair of the Federal Trade Commission and later general counsel and board chairman of the Allied States Association of Motion Picture Exhibitors
- Abram Rabinovich (1878–1943), Lithuanian–Russian chess master
- (Abram) Harding "Hardy" Richardson (1855–1931), second baseman and outfielder
- Abram Joseph Ryan (1839–1886), American poet, proponent of the Confederate States of America, and Roman Catholic priest
- Abram Saperstein, changed his name to Albert Sabin (1906–1993), Polish-American medical researcher who developed an oral polio vaccine; President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
- Abram Smith (disambiguation), multiple people
- Abram Trigg (born 1750), American farmer and politician
Variant forms
- Abraham (Avraham, Avrohom, also Avrohum, Avrohim, Avruhom, Avrihom, Avruhum, Ibrahim), list of people
- Avram (Avrom, Avrum)
- Abrams
- Abramson, Abramsson
- Abramov, and Abramowicz (Abramovich, Abramowitz), etc. (Slavic, Russianised form)
- Abramczyk (surname)
- Abraomas, Abromaitis (surname), Abrameit, Abromeit (Baltic forms)
- Bram, Brams, Brahm, Brahms, etc.
- (not to be confused with the Hindu word Brahman)
- Abiram, another Hebrew-origin given name
See also
References
Notes
Sources
- В. А. Никонов (V. A. Nikonov). "Ищем имя" (Looking for a Name). Изд. "Советская Россия". Москва, 1988. Шаблон:ISBN
- Н. А. Петровский (N. A. Petrovsky). "Словарь русских личных имён" (Dictionary of Russian First Names). ООО Издательство "АСТ". Москва, 2005. Шаблон:ISBN
- [1] А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Современный словарь личных имён: Сравнение. Происхождение. Написание" (Modern Dictionary of First Names: Comparison. Origins. Spelling). Айрис-пресс. Москва, 2005. Шаблон:ISBN
- [2] А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Словарь русских имён" (Dictionary of Russian Names). Издательство Эксмо. Москва, 2005. Шаблон:ISBN
- ↑ https://armstronginstitute.org/806-what-does-the-name-abraham-really-mean#:~:text=And%20Abraham's%20original%20name%2C%20Abram,something%20like%20“Beloved%20Father.”
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 Nikonov, p. 96
- ↑ NIV translation of the Bible, footnote to Шаблон:Bibleverse
- ↑ 4,00 4,01 4,02 4,03 4,04 4,05 4,06 4,07 4,08 4,09 4,10 4,11 Petrovsky, p. 35
- ↑ 5,0 5,1 Superanskaya [1], p. 20
- ↑ 6,0 6,1 6,2 Superanskaya [2], p. 30
- ↑ Superanskaya [2], pp. 23 and 30
