köken: The telegraph symbol ㋇ became part of Unicode due to its inclusion in Row 15 of GB 8565.2-88 表 A4 (1988), from 9708 of 标准电码本（修订本） (1983). First appears in 1952. See also Appendix:Chinese telegraph code/Mainland 1983 and Chinese telegraph code.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg-der. Latin augustusder. Vulgar Latin agustus Old Galician-Portuguese agosto Portuguese agostobor. ▲ English Augustinflu. Hindi अगस्त Borrowed from Portuguese agosto, influenced by English August. Compare Konkani आगोस्त (āgosta), Marathi आगस्त (āgasta).
köken: Inherited from Old Czech srpen. By surface analysis, srp (“sickle”) + -en, referring to harvesting. Cognate with Polish sierpień (“August”), Ukrainian се́рпень (sérpenʹ, “August”) and Serbo-Croatian srpanj (“July”).
From Classical Syriac ܐܒ (ʾāḇ), ultimately from Akkadian 𒌚𒉈 (Abum). Cognate with Hebrew אָב (av, “Av, the fifth month of the Hebrew lunisolar calendar”).