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- a mountain gazelle of Arabia, Gazella gazella arabica: almost extinct.
noun
- (in Shakespeare’s Tempest) a spirit of the air who is required to use his magic to help Prospero.
- Astronomy. one of the moons of the planet Uranus.
- Aerospace. one of a series of British satellites that studied the ionosphere, cosmic rays, and x-rays.
- Also Ar·i·elle [ar-ee-el, air-] /ˌær iˈɛl, ˌɛər-/. a female given name.
- a male given name.
noun
- an Arabian gazelle, Gazella arabica (or dama)
noun
- the smallest of the four large satellites of Uranus
1382, in the Wyclif Bible, a word taken untranslated from the Vulgate, from Greek ariel (Sept.), from Hebrew ariel; in later Bibles, translated as “altar.”
(Gesenius would here translate “fire-hearth of God,” after Arab. arr; elsewhere in O.T. the same word occurs as a man’s name, and appellation of Jerusalem, where it is taken as = “lion of God.”) Ariel in T. Heywood and Milton is the name of an angel, in Shakespeare of “an Ayrie spirit”; in Astron. of one of the satellites of Uranus. [OED]
As the name of a species of gazelle found in the Middle East, 1832, from Arabic aryil, variant of ayyil “stag.”