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Ari

1. (astronomy) IAU-designated abbreviation of Latin Arietis (the genitive form of the constellation Aries), as used in a star's Bayer designation

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).

Ari

1. A male given name from Hebrew, of Jewish usage, variant of Arieh (also transcribed as Aryeh, Arye).
2. A diminutive of the female given names Arianna, Ariana, Ariel, Ariella, or Arielle, also used as a formal given name.
3. A Papuan language spoken in Western Province, Papua New Guinea.
4. A town in Abruzzo, Italy.
5. A village in Mazandaran Province, Iran.
6. A village in Jammu and Kashmir, India.
7. An unincorporated community in Indiana, United States.
8. Alternative spelling of Aari (“a language of Ethiopia”)

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Ari terms

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Ari

1. a female given name

• Center for aboriginal studies (2014), “Ari”, in 原住民族人名譜 [Dictionary of Indigenous Names in Taiwan]‎^[1] (in Chinese), Taipei: Council of Indigenous Peoples

Derived from Old Norse Ari, from ari (“eagle”). Cognate with Norwegian Are.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛaːɹɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɛaːɹɪ
• Homophones: æri, ærið

Ari m

1. a male given name

Patronymics

• Ari's son: Arason
• Ari's daughter: Aradóttir

Vernacular form of Latin Adriānus, cognate to English Adrian. It has also been used as a nickname for Aaron, Aarne and Aarre.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑri/, [ˈɑ̝ri]
• Rhymes: -ɑri
• Syllabification^(key): A‧ri
• Hyphenation^(key): A‧ri

Ari

1. a male given name

• Popular in Finland in the 1950s and the 1960s.

• Ari is the 16^th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 25,827 male individuals (and as a middle name to 2,819 more), according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

Derived from Old Norse Ari, from ari (“eagle”). Cognate with Norwegian Are.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːrɪ/

  Rhymes: -aːrɪ

  Homophone: ari

Ari m (proper noun, genitive singular Ara)

1. a male given name

   Þetta er vinur minn, hann Ari.

   This is my friend Ari.

• Arie

From Javanese Ari, from Old Javanese ari (“the young”).

Ari

1. a male given name from Old Javanese

Ari f

1. a diminutive of the female given name Arianna

• -irà, RAI, Rai, ira, rai, ria, rià

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.riː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.ri]

Arī

1. dative singular of Arēs
2. vocative singular of Arius

From Proto-Germanic *arô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō (“eagle”).

• (9th century West Norse) IPA^(key): /ˈɑre/
• (13th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈari/

Ari m

1. a male given name
   • 12th century, Ari Þorgilsson, Íslendingabók:

     ...ok Þorgils, föður míns, en ek heitik Ari.

     ...and Thorgils, my father, and I am called Ari.

• Icelandic: Ari
• Norwegian Bokmål: Ari

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “Ari”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
• Orðsifjabók.arnastofnun
• Íslendingabók at Wikisource