Dictionary

Chaim en · PROPN

Etymology

From Hebrew חַיִּים (“life”).

Meanings

1. A male given name from Hebrew.
   • I’m distantly related to the truly great writer, Chaim Potok, which for a magazine editor seems like a good thing. 2014 August 20, Mark Potok, “What’s in a Name?”, in Southern Poverty Law Center, archived from the original on 28 Dec 2025:
   • Most Zionists hoped for a state of their own, but early in the 20th century, writers like Hillel Solotaroff and Chaim Zhitlowsky, both Yiddish-speaking immigrant intellectuals in New York, imagined another alternative: a federation of self-governing anarchist communes in Palestine that would defend Jewish life without relying on state power. 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2019:

Forms

Translations (2)

hi ख़ाइम (a male given name) · ar حَايِيم (a male given name)