Aviv

Or A·bib

[ah-veev]

noun

1. Chiefly Biblical.,  a former name for Nisan, the seventh month of the Jewish calendar.

2. the season of spring in the Jewish year.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Aviv¹

First recorded in 1525–35; from Hebrew āvīv, literally, “ear of barley”

Example Sentences

TEL AVIV—Israel has dominated battlefields across the Middle East for the past two years, largely from the air.

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One of the drones was flown into a retirement home in the town of Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, on the night of 11 October 2024, the Jewish Holy Day of Yom Kippur.

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Kobi Michael, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies, in Tel Aviv, and the Misgav Institute, an Israeli think tank, said Palestinians will continue to support Hamas—or at least not oppose it – until an alternative emerges.

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An Israeli civilian, the 77-year-old head of a Tel Aviv art college, who had joined the harvest, was also photographed with blood streaming down his face.

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TEL AVIV—Early this month, four Israeli military reservists who had been indicted on a charge of allegedly abusing a Palestinian prisoner stood in front of the press wearing balaclavas and demanded that the military’s former top lawyer be punished and jailed for leaking a section of security-camera video that was later used as evidence against them.

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