The Book of Lamentations is chanted in the synagogue on the ninth of Ab. 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 56:
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Ab en · PROPN · etymology 3
Pronunciation
/æb/ (US)
Etymology
Short form of Abner.
Meanings
A diminutive of the male given name Abner, from Hebrew, occasionally used as a formal given name.
Ab en · NOUN · etymology 4
Pronunciation
/æb/ (US)
Etymology
From the nineteenth-century Lepsius transcription, ȧb, of Egyptian jb (“heart, mind, intention”), ib:Z1.
Meanings
(dated) 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.
(dated) An Ancient Egyptian amulet in the shape of a heart (ib).