词汇 | ariel |
词源 | Ariel1382, in the Wycliffe Bible, a word taken untranslated from the Vulgate, from Greek ariel (Septuagint), from Hebrew ariel; in later Bibles, translated as " (Gesenius would here translate "fire-hearth of God," after Arab. arr; elsewhere in O.T. the same word occurs as a man's name, and appellation of Jerusalem, where it is taken as = "lion of God.") Ariel in T. Heywood and Milton is the name of an angel, in Shakespeare of "an Ayrie spirit"; in Astron. of one of the satellites of Uranus. [OED] As the name of a species of gazelle found in the Middle East, 1832, from Arabic aryil, variant of ayyil " updated on March 13, 2023 |
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