Daniel

Etymology

From Middle English Daniel, Daniell, from Ancient Greek Δᾱνῑήλ (Dānīḗl), from Hebrew דָּנִיֵּאל (daniyél, literally “God is my judge”), name borne from the prophet whose story is told in the Book of Daniel.^[1]

Pronunciation

• enPR: Dăn'yəl, IPA^(key): /ˈdænjəl/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [ˈdanjəl]

• Audio (Canada):

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• (obsolete) enPR: Dăn'əl, IPA^(key): /ˈdænəl/^[2][3]

• Rhymes: -ænjəl

Proper noun

Daniel

2. A book in the Old Testament of the Bible.

   Synonym: (abbreviation) Dan.

4. (biblical) The prophet whose story is told in the Book of Daniel.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 6:16:

     Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the denne of Lions: now the king spake and saide vnto Daniel; Thy God, whom thou seruest continually, he will deliuer thee.

5. A male given name from Hebrew in regular use since the Middle Ages.
   • 1989, John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Corgi Books, →ISBN, page 55:

     "His name is Daniel Needham," my mother said. Whew! With what relief - down came my grandmother's hands! Needham was a fine old name, a founding fathers sort of name, a name you could trace back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony - if not exactly Gravesend itself. And Daniel was as Daniel as Daniel Webster, which was as good a name as a Wheelwright could wish for.
     "But he's called Dan," my mother added, bringing a slight frown to my grandmother's countenance.

6. A British surname originating as a patronymic, a variant of Daniels.
7. A French surname originating as a patronymic.
8. A Portuguese surname originating as a patronymic.
9. A surname from Irish, a rare adopted anglicization of Ó Domhnaill (O'Donnell).
10. A village in central Poland.
11. A town in Utah, United States.
12. A census-designated place in Wyoming, United States.

Noun

Daniel (plural Daniels)

1. A wise judge, like the biblical Daniel who ingeniously saved a woman from false accusations of adultery.
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! / O wise young judge, how I do honour thee!

References

Anagrams

• lead-in, denial, denail, Leanid, Aldine, Denali, alined, Delina, lead in, nailed, Eiland, dienal, Delian, enlaid, inlead, lained, dealin', leadin', deal in

Alternative forms

• Danjell, Daniell

Etymology

Alternative form of Albanian Danjell (“Daniel”); from Latin Daniēl (from Ancient Greek Δᾱνῑήλ (Dānīḗl), from Hebrew דָּנִיֵּאל).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.ɲɛɫ/, /ˈda.ɲɛl/, /ˈda.njɛɫ/, /ˈda.njɛl/

Proper noun

Daniel m (definite Danieli)

1. (Christianity, biblical) Daniel (Old Testament prophet)
2. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Daniel

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [də.niˈɛl]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [da.niˈɛl]
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Proper noun

Daniel m

1. (biblical) Daniel
2. (biblical) Daniel (book of the Bible)
3. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Daniel

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdanɪjɛl]

Proper noun

Daniel m anim

1. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Daniel

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈd̥æːˀnjəl]

Proper noun

Daniel

1. (biblical) Daniel
2. Daniel (book of the Bible)
3. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Daniel

References

• Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 20 632 males with the given name Daniel have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Etymology

The village is named after a former plantation house.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaː.niˌjɛl/

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• Hyphenation: Da‧ni‧el

Proper noun

Daniel m

1. A village in Curaçao
2. Alternative form of Daniël

Anagrams

• eiland, inlade, lade in

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Δᾱνῑήλ (Dānīḗl), from Biblical Hebrew דָּנִיֵּאל (daniyél).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɑniel/, [ˈdɑ̝nie̞l]
• Rhymes: -ɑniel
• Hyphenation^(key): Da‧ni‧el

Proper noun

Daniel

1. Daniel (biblical book and prophet)
2. a male given name from Biblical Hebrew
   • 1968, Venny Kontturi, Kankurikello, Gummerus, page 32:

     Mutta nimeksi ei voitu laittaa Daniel niin kuin Kusti koko ajan oli uhkaillut ja äiti vastustellut. Äiti oli sanonut tosisssaan, ettei sitä nyt sellaista karhunpalvelusta voida lapsellensa tehdä että Taneliksi ristittäisiin. Toiset mukulat tuonnempana vain nimittelisivät ja rumaa hokua veisaisivat lapselle.
     Ja Viira tiesi kyllä, mitä viisua äiti ajoi takaa vaikka ei sanonut. Sitä niin, jossa hoettiin hävyttömästi, että tint tant taneli, tanelin pallia paleli.

     But the name couldn't be Daniel, as Kusti had been threatening and mother resisting. The mother had said in earnest that they couldn't do such a disservice to their child to christen them Taneli. The other kids would just pick on him, singing their ugly rhymes.
     And Viira knew what she was getting at, even if she didn't say it out loud. The obscene one that went "tint tant taneli, tanelin pallia paleli".

   • 2014, Antti Holma, Järjestäjä, Otava, →ISBN, page 46:

     Daniel hänen nimensä oli. Tietenkin. Ei hän olisi voinut olla Jani tai Sami. Janit ovat kännykkäkaupassa töissä. Samitkin ovat kännykkäkaupassa töissä, mutta esimiesasemassa. Oliko hän joku tähti?

     Daniel was his name. Of course. He couldn't be a Jani or Sami. Janis work at mobile phone shops, and Samis too but as managers. Was he a star?

   • 2019, Anja Portin, Muistokirjoitus, S&S, →ISBN, page 107:

     Daniel, mies sanoo. Julia ajattelee, että nimi sopii kauriille, se on pehmeä ja notkea. Hän tarttuu miehen käteen ja sanoo nimensä.

     Daniel, the main said. Julia thinks that the name is fitting for a deer, it's soft and flexible. She grabs the man by his hand and says his name.

Anagrams

• elandi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da.njɛl/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: Danielle, Danièle

Proper noun

Daniel m

1. (biblical) Daniel (biblical book and prophet)
2. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Daniel

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaːni̯ɛl/, [ˈdaː.njɛl], [ˈdaː.ni.ɛl]
• IPA^(key): /ˈdaːˌni̯eːl/, /ˈdaːni̯əl/ (rarer variants)

• Audio (Austria):

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• Hyphenation: Da‧ni‧el

Proper noun

Daniel m (proper noun, strong, genitive Daniels)

1. (biblical) Daniel (biblical book and prophet)
2. a male given name from Hebrew, feminine equivalent Daniela, equivalent to English Daniel

Alternative forms

• (book of the Bible): Dan.
• Danihēl

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Δᾱνῑήλ (Dānīḗl), from the Biblical Hebrew דָּנִיֵּאל (Daniyél, “Daniel”, literally “God is [my] judge”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdaː.ni.eːl/, [ˈd̪äːnieːɫ̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈda.ni.el/, [ˈd̪äːniel]

Proper noun

Dāniēl m sg (genitive Dāniēlis); third declension

1. Daniel (Biblical character)
2. Book of Daniel

References

• “Dănĭēl”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Daniel in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Further reading

• Prophetia Danielis on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Δᾱνῑήλ (Dānīḗl), from Hebrew דניּאל (daniyél, “God is my judge”). First recorded as a given name in Norway c. 1350.

Proper noun

Daniel

1. Daniel (biblical book and prophet)
2. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Daniel

References

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk:15 404 males with the given name Daniel living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak around 1990. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.ɲɛl/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -aɲɛl
• Syllabification: Da‧niel
• Homophone: daniel

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin Dāniēl.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Further reading

• Daniel in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Daniel in PWN's encyclopedia
• “Daniel”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese Daniel, from Latin Daniēl, from Ancient Greek Δᾱνῑήλ (Dānīḗl), from Hebrew דָּנִיֵּאל. Doublet of Danilo.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
• Hyphenation: Da‧ni‧el

Proper noun

Daniel m

1. (biblical) Daniel (the book of the Bible)
2. (biblical) Daniel (Old Testament prophet)
3. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Daniel

Proper noun

Daniel m (genitive Dhanieil)

1. (biblical) Daniel
2. (biblical) Daniel, the twenty-seventh book of the Old Testament

Mutation

Etymology

Derived from Hebrew דניאל.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdaɲi̯el]

Proper noun

Daniel m pers (genitive singular Daniela, nominative plural Danielovia, declension pattern of chlap)

1. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Daniel
2. (religion) Daniel

Further reading

• “Daniel”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daˈnjel/ [d̪aˈnjel]
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: Da‧niel

Proper noun

Daniel m

1. Daniel (biblical book and prophet)
2. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Daniel
3. the letter D in the Spanish spelling alphabet

Etymology

From Vulgate Latin Daniel, ultimately of Hebrew origin. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1246.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Daniel c (genitive Daniels)

1. Daniel (biblical book and prophet)
2. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Daniel

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 82 724 males with the given name Daniel living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1980s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Anagrams

• ilande, inleda