伯
Meanings
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- 1.father's elder brother
- 2.senior
- 3.paternal elder uncle
- 4.eldest of brothers
- 5.respectful form of address
- 6.Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wǔ děng jué wèi]
- 1.one hundred (old)
- 1.variant of 霸[bà]
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Wiktionary
- 1.eldest brother
- 2.paternal uncle; father's elder brother
- 3.form of address for senior males
- 4.count (rank)
- 5.mother
- 6.paternal aunt (wife of father's elder brother)
- 7.paternal aunt (father's sister)
- 8.a surname
- 9.only used in 大伯子 (dàbǎizi, “husband's elder brother”)
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *praːɡ): semantic 人 (“person”) + phonetic 白 (OC *braːɡ). Unclear. Possibly an areal word (Schuessler, 2007). Compare Mru [script needed] (rak, “eldest brother”) and Kukish prak (“eldest brother”) (Löffler, 1966), as well as Lahu phâ (“god; lord”) < Thai พระ (prá) < Old Khmer bra or Angkorian Old Khmer braḥ, braḥh, brah (“distinguished; divine; excellent; holy; sacred; superior; etc.”) (see Khmer ព្រះ (preăh) for more). Possibly related to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *bʷaŋ ~ *pʷaŋ (“(paternal) uncle; elder brother”), in turn possibly related to 兄 (OC *hmraŋ, “elder brother”) (Benedict, 1972). Alternatively, from 白 (OC *braːɡ, “white”); compare 皤 (OC *paːl, *baːl, “white”), which underwent parallel semantic shift to "white-haired", though this is possibly folk etymology (Schuessler, 2007). Pronunciation 3 is the exoactive/transitive of pronunciation 1 (ibid.).
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Example sentences
伯拉罕·林肯，美国第16任总统，生于肯塔基州的一个简陋的小屋里。
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in a log cabin in Kentucky.
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