a male given name from Arabic يَعْقُوب (yaʕqūb) [in turn from Classical Syriac ܝܥܩܘܒ, in turn from Hebrew יעקב], equivalent to English Jacob or James · Jacob (patriarch) · James, any of a number of figures in the New Testament
köken: Borrowed from Arabic يَعْقُوب (yaʕqūb), from Classical Syriac ܝܥܩܘܒ (yaʿqōḇ), from Biblical Hebrew יעקב.
Jacob · a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Jacob
köken: From Arabic يَعْقُوب (yaʕqūb), from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (ya'akov). Cognate with Azerbaijani Yaqub, Kyrgyz Жакып (Jakıp), Tajik Яъқуб (Ya'qub), Turkish Yakup, Uzbek Yaʼqub, etc.
Jacob (one of the sons of Isaac and Rebecca) · a male given name, equivalent to English Jacob
eş: Jacob, Jacobo
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Jacob, a learned borrowing from Latin Iācōbus, borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), borrowed from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב, from עקב. Doublet of Iago, Jaime, and Tiago.
a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English James or Jacob
eş: Izrael, Jakubek, Kuba, Kubuś
köken: Inherited from Old Polish Jakób, from Latin Iacōbus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (ya‘ăqṓḇ, “Jacob”, literally “he will/shall heel”), from עָקֵב (‘āqḗḇ, “heel of the foot”). Doublet of jacuzzi.
James, one of two Apostles, James the Greater and James the Less, often identified with James, brother of Jesus. · Epistle of James, the twentieth book of the New Testament of the Bible · a male given name, Yaqub or Yakub, from Arabic, equivalent to English Jacob
köken: Borrowed from Arabic يَعْقُوب (yaʕqūb), from Classical Syriac ܝܥܩܘܒ (yaʿqōḇ), from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (yaʿăqōḇ).