Ari (name)
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Ari is a given name in many languages and cultures, for both men and women. It also may be a nickname for a wide variety of unrelated names.
Etymology
Badaga
Ari in the Badaga language, "Ari" ("A:ri") has a literal meaning of "sun-like" and is used as a male name, sometimes changed to "Harry" in the case of converts to Christianity.[1]
Finnic languages
Ari is thought to be a Finnic form of Adrian.[2]
German
Ari in German is masculine name and means "eagle"[3] or "great bird".
French
Ari or Aris; meaning to be coldhearted or cold, lonely. Commonly male name.
Greek
Ari or Aris is a common shortened version of the Greek names Aristotle, Ariadne, Ariana, Arietta, Aristides, Aristarchus, Aristomenes, Aristobulos, Aristoxenos, Aristos, Aristophanes, Aristea, Aristotelis, and others, the majority of which are compounds of the adjectival superlative áristos, "best" or "superior". They are also modern Greek transliterations for Ares, the god of war and the name for the planet Mars. The archaic Greek prefix ari-[4] (e.g. in Ariadne, Arimnestus etc.) or eri-, a cognate of áristos, means "very" or "verily".
Hebrew
Ari is a common masculine given name in Hebrew (אריה). It means lion.
People named Ari
- Ari Ahonen (born 1981), Finnish ice hockey goaltender
- Ari Angervo (born 1944), Finnish classical violinist and conductor
- Ari Anjala, Finnish orienteering competitor
- Ari Ankorin (1908–1986), Israeli politician and lawyer
- Ari Aster, American filmmaker and screenwriter
- Ari Babakhanov, Uzbek musician
- Ari Behn (1972–2019), Norwegian author and husband of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
- Ari Ben-Menashe (born 1952), Iranian-born Israeli businessman, security consultant and author
- Ari Berk (born 1967), American writer
- Ari Borovoy (born 1979), Mexican musician
- Ari Boyland (born 1987), New Zealand actor
- Ari Brown (born 1944), American jazz musician
- Ari Brynjolfsson (1927–2013), Icelandic physicist
- Ari Cohen, Canadian actor
- Ari Elon (born 1950), Israeli writer, Bible scholar, and educator
- Ari Emanuel (born 1961), American talent agent
- Ari Fleischer (born 1960), former White House Press Secretary for U.S. President George W. Bush
- Ari Folman (born 1962), Israeli film director, screenwriter and film score composer
- Ari Freyr Skúlason (born 1987), Icelandic footballer
- Ari Gold (filmmaker), American filmmaker, actor, musician
- Ari Gold (musician) (born 1977), American R&B artist
- Ari Glass (born 1989), American painter and artist
- Ari L. Goldman (born 1949), American journalist and professor
- Ari Graynor (born 1983), American actress
- Ari Greenberg (born 1981), American contract bridge player
- Ari Gröndahl (born 1989), Finnish ice hockey defenceman
- Ari Haanpää (born 1965), Finnish ice hockey player
- Ari Herstand (born 1985), American singer/songwriter
- Ari Hest (born 1979), American singer-songwriter
- Ari Hjelm (born 1962), Finnish football coach and former player
- Ari Hoenig (born 1973), American jazz drummer, composer and educator
- Ari Hoogenboom (1927–2014), American historian
- Ari Hoptman (born 1967), American actor and playwright
- Ari Huumonen (1956–2013), Finnish discus thrower
- Ari Ichihashi (市橋 有里, born 1977), Japanese long-distance runner
- Ari Jabotinsky (1910–1969), Revisionist Zionist activist, Israeli politician and academic
- Ari Joshua, American guitarist, songwriter, member of the band Big High
- Ari Jónsson (born 1994), Faroese footballer
- Ari Jósefsson (1939–1964), Icelandic poet
- Ari Kattainen (born 1958), Finnish orienteering competitor
- Ari Kelman, American historian and professor
- Ari Koivunen (born 1984), Finnish heavy metal singer
- Ari Kurniawan (born 1978), Indonesian footballer
- Ari Laptev (born 1950), Russian mathematician
- Ari Lasso (born 1973), Indonesian musician
- Ari Lehman (born 1965), American actor and performance artist
- Ari Lemmke (born 1963), Finnish computer programmer
- Ari Leff (born 1994), American singer and songwriter
- Ari Libsker (born 1972), Israeli filmmaker and journalist
- Ari Lohenoja (born 1958), Finnish television producer and director
- Ari Mannio (born 1987), Finnish javelin thrower
- Ari Marcopoulos (born 1957), Dutch-American photographer and filmmaker
- Ari Marmell (born 1974) American novelist and game writer
- Ari Melber (born 1980), American journalist
- Ari Meyers (born 1969), American actress
- Ari Millen (born 1982), Canadian actor
- Ari Ne'eman (born 1987), American autism rights activist
- Ari Nyman (born 1984), Finnish footballer
- Aristotle Onassis (1906–1975), Greek shipping magnate and husband of Jacqueline Kennedy
- Ari Pakarinen (born 1969), Finnish javelin thrower
- Ari Palolahti (born 1968), Finnish cross-country skier
- Ari Porth (born 1970), American attorney, jurist, and politician
- Ari Poutiainen (born 1972), Finnish jazz musician and composer
- Ari Puheloinen (born 1951), Finnish general
- Ari Pulkkinen (born 1982), Finnish video game composer, musician, and sound designer
- Ari Rath (1925–2017), Austrian-Israeli journalist and writer
- Ari Romero (1951–2013), Mexican professional wrestler
- Ari Roth (born 1961), American theatrical producer, playwright, director, and educator
- Ari Saarinen (born 1967), Finnish ice hockey player
- Ari Salin (born 1947), Finnish hurdler and sprinter
- Ari Sandel (born 1974), American filmmaker
- Ari Santos (born 1982), Brazilian futsal player
- Ari Schwartz, American Internet Policy Advisor
- Ari Shaffir (born 1974), American stand-up comedian
- Ari Shapiro (born 1978), American radio journalist
- Ari Daniel Shapiro, American science journalist
- Ari Singh II, (1724–1773), Maharana of Mewar Kingdom
- Ari Sitas (born 1952), South African sociologist, writer, dramatist and civic activist
- Ari Suhonen (born 1965), Finnish middle distance runner
- Ari Sulander (born 1969), Finnish ice hockey goaltender
- Ari Taub (director) (born 1965), American filmmaker
- Ari Taub (wrestler) (born 1971), Canadian Greco-Roman wrestler
- Ari Telch (born 1962), Mexican actor
- Ari Þorgilsson (1067–1148), Icelandic medieval chronicler
- Ari Up (1962–2010), German-born singer
- Ari Väänänen (born 1947), Finnish long jumper
- Ari Valvee (born 1960), Finnish footballer
- Ari Vatanen (born 1952), Finnish politician and former rally driver
- Ari Wallach (born 1974), Mexican-American businessman
- Ari Wolfe (born 1971), American play-by-play announcer, reporter and anchor
Fictional characters
- Ari Ben Canaan, protagonist in the novel Exodus by Leon Uris and the 1960 film adaptation, played by Paul Newman
- Ari Gold (Entourage), on the comedy-drama television series Entourage
- Ari Tenenbaum, character in Wes Anderson's 2001 movie The Royal Tenenbaums
- Ari Tasarov, from the TV series Nikita
- Ari Levinson, The Red Sea Diving Resort
See also
- Ari, for other uses
- Arie, a Dutch and Hebrew masculine name
- Arieh (disambiguation)
Notes
- ^ Hockings, Paul; Pilot-Raichoor, Christiane (1992), Werner Winter; Richard A. Rhodes (eds.), A Badaga-English Dictionary, Trends in Linguistics: Documentation, vol. 8, Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, p. 47, ISBN 978-3-11-012677-8, OCLC 25963917, retrieved 13 Dec 2011
- ^ Balodis, Pauls (August 2009). "Personal Names of Livonian Origin in Latvia: Past and Present" (PDF). In Wolfgang Ahrens; Sheila Embleton; André Lapierre (eds.). Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences. 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences. Toronto, Canada: York University. pp. 105–116. ISBN 978-1-55014-521-2. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
{{cite conference}}: External link in|conferenceurl=|booktitle=ignored (|book-title=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|conferenceurl=ignored (|conference-url=suggested) (help) - ^ Stewart, Julia (1993), "A", African Names (GoogleBook), New York, New York: Kensington Publishing, p. 14, ISBN 0-8065-1386-1, OCLC 59614650, retrieved 13 Dec 2011
- ^ Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert. "A Greek-English Lexicon, ἀρι^-". Perseus Digital Library.
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