Ariel

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A name for the city of Jerusalem, the claimed (and de-facto) capital city of modern Israel (country) ;, and the claimed capital city of modern Palestine (country).
• A male given name from Hebrew, also ascribed to spirits and angels in English literature.
• A female given name from Hebrew, used mainly since the 1980s.
• The brightest moon of the planet Uranus.
• Israeli settlement/and/city in the central West Bank (region).

Origin

• From Ancient Hebrew אֲרִיאֵל, a compound of אֲרִי and אֵל.