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Ari

proper nouncommon in dialogue

A male given name from Hebrew, of Jewish usage, variant of Arieh (also transcribed as Aryeh, Arye).

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from Hebrew, of Jewish usage, variant of Arieh (also transcribed as Aryeh, Arye).

  2. 2

    A diminutive of the female given names Arianna, Ariana, Ariel, Ariella, or Arielle, also used as a formal given name.

  3. 3

    A Papuan language spoken in Western Province, Papua New Guinea.

  4. 4

    A town in Abruzzo, Italy.

  5. 5

    A village in Mazandaran Province, Iran.

  6. 6

    A village in Jammu and Kashmir, India.

  7. 7

    An unincorporated community in Indiana, United States.

  8. 8

    Variant of AariAlternative spelling of Aari (“a language of Ethiopia”)

Etymology

Of the first sense, derives directly from Hebrew: אֲרִי (arí, “lion”); compare Yiddish: לייב (leyb, “Leib”), English: Leo, Leon, French: Léo, Léon, Czech: Lev, Polish: Lew, Russian: Лев (Lev), and Ukrainian: Лев (Lev).

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).