Gabriel

See also: gabriel, Gabríel, and Gabriël

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): /ˈɡeɪbɹi.əl/

  • Audio (UK)

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Proper noun

Gabriel

1. A male given name 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.

2. An archangel associated in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, with carrying messages from God.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 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 964384981, Luke 1:26:

     :

     And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,

3. A surname originating as a patronymic.

Related terms

• pet form: Gabe
• female given names: Gabriela, Gabriella, Gabrielle

Translations

male given name

• Arabic: جِبْرَائِيل‎ (jibrāʾīl), جِبْرِيل‎ (ar) (jibrīl)
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܓܒܪܐܝܠ‎, ܓܒܪܝܐܝ‎

• Armenian: Գաբրիել (Gabriel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加百列 (zh) (Jiābǎiliè)

• Czech: Gabriel m
• Danish: Gabriel
• Esperanto: Gabrielo
• Finnish: Kaapo (fi)
• French: Gabriel (fr) m
• Galician: Gabriel (gl) m
• German: Gabriel (de) m
• Greek: Γαβριήλ (el) m (Gavriíl)
• Hausa: Jibirilu
• Hawaiian: Kapeliela
• Hebrew: גַּבְרִיאֵל‎ (he) (gavriél)
• Hindi: जबराइल (hi) m (jabrāil), जब्रील (hi) m (jabrīl)
• Hungarian: Gábor (hu)
• Irish: ^{(please verify)} Gaibriéil m
• Italian: Gabriele (it) m, Gabriello m
• Japanese: ガブリエル (Gaburieru)
• Korean: 가브리엘 (Gabeuriel)
• Latin: Gabriel m, Gabrihel m
• Macedonian: Га́врил (mk) m (Gávril)
• Malay: Jibril
• Maltese: Gabriel
• Maori: Kaperiere
• Norwegian: Gabriel (no)
• Persian: جبرئیل‎ (fa) (jebra'il), (prescriptive) جبرییل‎ (fa) (jebrayil), (literally) جبریل‎ (jebril), گابریل‎ (gâbriel)
• Polish: Gabriel (pl) m
• Portuguese: Gabriel (pt) m
• Russian: Гаврии́л (ru) m (Gavriíl)
• Spanish: Gabriel (es) m
• Swedish: Gabriel (sv)
• Yiddish: גבֿריאל‎ m (gavriyel)

archangel

• Amharic: ገብርኤል (gäbrəʾel)
• Arabic: جَبْرَائِيل‎ (jabrāʾīl), جِبْرِيل‎ (ar) (jibrīl)
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܓܒܪܐܝܠ‎, ܓܒܪܝܐܝ‎

• Armenian: Գաբրիել (Gabriel)
• Azerbaijani: Cəbrayıl (az)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加百列 (zh) (Jiābǎiliè), 加俾額爾, 加俾额尔 (Jiābǐ'é'ěr) (Catholic)

• Czech: Gabriel m
• Danish: Gabriel
• Dutch: Gabriël (nl) m
• Esperanto: Gabrielo
• Finnish: Gabriel (fi)
• French: Gabriel (fr) m
• German: Gabriel (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌴𐌻 (gabriēl)
• Greek: Γαβριήλ (el) m (Gavriíl)

  Ancient: Γαβριήλ m (Gabriḗl)

• Hausa: Jibirilu
• Hawaiian: Gaberiela
• Hebrew: גבריאל‎ (he)
• Hindi: जब्रील (hi) m (jabrīl), जबराइल (hi) m (jabrāil)
• Hungarian: Gábriel (hu)
• Icelandic: Gabríel (is) m, Gabriel m
• Irish: ^{(please verify)} Gaibriéil m
• Italian: Gabriele (it) m
• Kazakh: Жәбірейіл (Jäbıreiıl)
• Korean: 가브리엘 (Gabeuriel)
• Latin: Gabriel m
• Macedonian: Га́врил (mk) (Gávril) (Judaism, Christianity), Џи́брил (Džíbril) (Islam)
• Malay: Jibril
• Ngazidja Comorian: Djibril
• Norwegian: Gabriel (no)
• Persian: جبرئیل‎ (fa) (jebra'il)
• Portuguese: Gabriel (pt) m
• Rohingya: Jibrail
• Russian: Гаврии́л (ru) m (Gavriíl)
• Spanish: Gabriel (es) m
• Swedish: Gabriel (sv) m
• Tatar: Җибрил (Cibril), Җәбраил (Cäbrail)
• Turkish: Cebrail (tr), Cebrâil (tr)
• Ukrainian: Гавриїл (Havryjil)
• Uyghur: جەبرائىل‎ (jebra'il)
• Yiddish: גבֿריאל‎ m (gavriyel)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} Cebrail (tr)

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ɡə.bɾiˈɛl/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ɡa.bɾiˈɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Proper noun

Gabriel m

1. Gabriel

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡabrɪɛl]

Proper noun

Gabriel m

1. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel

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Danish

Proper noun

Gabriel

1. Gabriel (Archangel)
2. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel

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Faroese

Proper noun

Gabriel m

1. a male given name

Usage notes

Patronymics

• son of Gabriel: Gabrielsson
• daughter of Gabriel: Gabrielsdóttir

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Gabriel
Accusative	Gabriel
Dative	Gabrieli
Genitive	Gabriels

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Finnish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Γαβρῑήλ (Gabrīḗl), from Hebrew גַּבְרִיאֵל‎ (gaḇrīʾḗl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑ(ː)briel/, [ˈɡɑ(ː)brie̞l]
• Rhymes: -ɑbriel
• Syllabification^(key): gab‧ri‧el

Proper noun

Gabriel

1. Gabriel (Archangel)
2. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel

Declension

Inflection of Gabriel (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		Gabriel	Gabrielit
genitive		Gabrielin	Gabrielien
partitive		Gabrielia	Gabrieleja
illative		Gabrieliin	Gabrieleihin
		singular	plural
nominative		Gabriel	Gabrielit
accusative	nom.	Gabriel	Gabrielit
	gen.	Gabrielin
genitive		Gabrielin	Gabrielien
partitive		Gabrielia	Gabrieleja
inessive		Gabrielissa	Gabrieleissa
elative		Gabrielista	Gabrieleista
illative		Gabrieliin	Gabrieleihin
adessive		Gabrielilla	Gabrieleilla
ablative		Gabrielilta	Gabrieleilta
allative		Gabrielille	Gabrieleille
essive		Gabrielina	Gabrieleina
translative		Gabrieliksi	Gabrieleiksi
instructive		—	Gabrielein
abessive		Gabrielitta	Gabrieleitta
comitative		—	Gabrieleineen

Possessive forms of Gabriel (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Gabrielini	Gabrielimme
2nd person	Gabrielisi	Gabrielinne
3rd person	Gabrielinsa

Related terms

• male given names: Kaapo, Kaapro

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.bʁi.jɛl/

Proper noun

Gabriel m

1. Gabriel (Archangel)
2. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel

Related terms

• female given name: Gabrielle

Descendants

• → Alemannic German: Gaabi

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡaːbʀiˌeːl]

• Audio (Austria)

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• Audio

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• Hyphenation: Ga‧bri‧el

Proper noun

Gabriel

1. (biblical) Gabriel (Archangel)
2. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel

Related terms

• feminine form: Gabriele

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Γαβρῑήλ (Gabrīḗl), from Hebrew גַּבְרִיאֵל‎ (gaḇrīʾḗl, “God is my strong man”), from גֶּבֶר‎ (géver, “strong man, hero”) and אֵל‎ (ʾēl, “God”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.bri.eːl/, [ˈɡäbrieːɫ̪]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.bri.el/, [ˈɡäːbriel]

Proper noun

Gabriēl m (indeclinable)

1. Gabriel

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
  • → Kapampangan: Gabriel
  • → Tagalog: 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

1. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Gabriel

1. Gabriel (Archangel).
2. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡab.rjɛl/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -abrjɛl
• Syllabification: Gab‧riel

Proper noun

Gabriel m pers (diminutive Gabryś)

1. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel
2. Gabriel (archangel)

Declension

Declension of Gabriel

	singular	plural
nominative	Gabriel	Gabriele
genitive	Gabriela	Gabrieli
dative	Gabrielowi	Gabrielom
accusative	Gabriela	Gabrieli
instrumental	Gabrielem	Gabrielami
locative	Gabrielu	Gabrielach
vocative	Gabrielu	Gabriele

Proper noun

Gabriel f pl

1. genitive plural of Gabriela

Further reading

• Gabriel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Gabriel in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡa.bɾiˈɛw/ [ɡa.bɾɪˈɛʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ɡaˈbɾjɛw/ [ɡaˈbɾjɛʊ̯]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡɐ.bɾiˈɛl/ [ɡɐ.βɾiˈɛɫ], (faster pronunciation) /ɡɐˈbɾjɛl/ [ɡɐˈβɾjɛɫ]

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
• Hyphenation: Ga‧bri‧el

Proper noun

Gabriel m

2. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel
4. (Christianity, Judaism) Gabriel (archangel who carries messages from God)

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡabri̯el]

Proper noun

Gabriel m (genitive singular Gabriela, nominative plural Gabrielovia, declension pattern of chlap)

1. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel

Declension

Declension of Gabriel

	singular	plural
nominative	Gabriel	Gabrielovia
genitive	Gabriela	Gabrielov
dative	Gabrielovi	Gabrielom
accusative	Gabriela	Gabrielov
locative	Gabrielovi	Gabrieloch
instrumental	Gabrielom	Gabrielmi

Derived terms

• Gabino
• Gabo
• Gábor
• Gabrielko
• Gábriš

 

Further reading

• Gabriel in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈbɾjel/ [ɡaˈβ̞ɾjel]
• Rhymes: -el
• Hyphenation: Ga‧briel

Proper noun

Gabriel m

1. Gabriel (Archangel)
2. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel

Related terms

• nickname: Gabo, Gabi
• female given name: Gabriela

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑːbrɪɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Proper noun

Gabriel c (genitive Gabriels)

1. Gabriel (Archangel).
2. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel

Derived terms

• Gabi (diminutive)
• Gabo (diminutive)

Related terms

• female given name: Gabriella

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Gabriel.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Gab‧ri‧el
• IPA^(key): /ɡabɾiˈel/, [ɡɐbˈɾjel]

Proper noun

Gabriél

1. (biblical) Gabriel
2. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Gabriel
3. a surname from Spanish

Related terms

• Gabriela; Gabrielle (female name)

Statistics

According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Gabriel is the 108th most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 54,263 individuals.