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Meaning of אב | Babel Free

Noun feminine CEFR B1 Frequent
/ʔaːb/

הגדרות

  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.))
  2. singular construct state form of אָב (av).
    construct, form-of, singular
  3. 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)
    Judaism
  4. swelling, spreading.
  5. ancestor, forefather
  6. the young shoots of a tree, opposed to the branches growing directly from the trunk.
  7. progenitor
  8. state of growth, development
    in-plural
  9. originator
  10. prototype

שוות ערך

English av father

דוגמאות

“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: […]

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

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

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

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.

“אֶל־גִּנַּת אֱגוֹז יָרַדְתִּי לִרְאוֹת בְּאִבֵּי הַנָּחַל”

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

רמת CEFR

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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