Ab

Meanings

Noun

• Antibody.
• In Egyptian belief, the heart and will and conscience of a person, especially that of the recently deceased which proceeds to the afterlife and is weighed as evidence during his or her judgement.
• An Ancient Egyptian amulet in the shape of a heart (ib).
• Abbreviation of abbot

Proper Noun

• Av.
• A male given name from Hebrew, occasionally used as a formal given name.

Origin

• The first letter of each of the two syllables of antibody.
• Borrowed from Hebrew אָב.
• Short form of Abner.
• From the nineteenth-century Lepsius transcription, ȧb, of Egyptian jb, ib:Z1.
• Abbreviation.