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Ariel
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- 1 A name for the city of Jerusalem, the claimed (and de-facto) capital city of modern Israel, and the claimed capital city of modern Palestine.
"Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices."
- 2 A male given name from Hebrew, also ascribed to spirits and angels in English literature.
"Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding."
- 3 A female given name from Hebrew, used mainly since the 1980s.
""I'm going to name her Ariel," Laura said, ignoring them completely as she stared down at the baby. "The boys like the name because it's the same as the girl in the Little Mermaid movie. And I like it, because it's pretty.""
- 4 The brightest moon of the planet Uranus.
- 5 An Israeli settlement and city in the central West Bank.
- 1 A kind of mountain gazelle, native to Arabia.
- 2 Misspelling of aerial. alt-of, misspelling
Etymology
From Biblical Hebrew אֲרִיאֵל (ari'él, a compound of אֲרִי (arí, “lion”) + אֵל (él, “God”), literally “lion of God”). * (moon of Uranus): All of Uranus’s moons are named after characters created by William Shakespeare or Alexander Pope. The names of all four satellites of Uranus then known were suggested by John Herschel in 1852 at the request of William Lassell, though it is uncertain if Herschel devised the names, or if Lassell did so and then sought Herschel’s permission. Ariel is the name of the leading sylph in Pope’s The Rape of the Lock and also the spirit who serves Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
See also for "ariel"
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