ariel
pronunciation
How to pronounce ariel in British English:
UK ['eərɪəl]
How to pronounce ariel in American English:
US ['eərɪrl]
Word Origin
- ariel
- 1382, in the Wyclif Bible, a word taken untranslated from the Vulgate, from Greek ariel (Sept.), from Hebrew ariel; in later Bibles, translated as "altar." (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 "stag."
Example
- 1. Ariel denied distributing the videos , saying they had been stolen .
- 2. Ariel had made three sex videos featuring him and separately , two female celebrities .
- 3. Ariel loved to sing , and she sang pretty damn well .
- 4. Late that night I met alone with ariel sharon for the first time .
- 5. You want me to recite ariel to them ?