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Hashem_Yaazor
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 Thu, Jan 26 2012, 11:41 am
observer, it's 2 names.
With a hey -- diminutive of Rivka.
With an aleph -- Aramaic, meaning little girl.
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observer
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Thu, Jan 26 2012, 11:44 am
| Hashem_Yaazor wrote: | observer, it's 2 names.
With a hey -- diminutive of Rivka.
With an aleph -- Aramaic, meaning little girl. |
Ahh, ok, that makes sense.
And it definitely does NOT mean fight according to anyone!
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middy
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Thu, Jan 26 2012, 11:45 am
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RIVA
GENDER: Feminine
USAGE: Hebrew
OTHER SCRIPTS: רִיבָה (Hebrew)
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Diminutive of RIVKA
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OTHER LANGUAGES: Becca, Becka, Beckah, Becky, Reba, Becci, Bekki (English)
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Ruchel
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Thu, Jan 26 2012, 11:52 am
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Professor Beider finds that Riva comes from Rivka, and davka was deemed more proper as some assumed the -ka ending was a familiar endearment, like Nachmanke, Moshek...
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hesha
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Thu, Jan 26 2012, 7:27 pm
as hashem yaazor said, it seems there are two versions of the name riva.
1. one is a yiddish nickname for rivkah
2. one is a hebrew word for girl. look in the rashi where the posuk discusses the wickedness of sdom. hashem says: the cries have reached Me. Rashi says: the cries of a riva (girl) whom they killed in an unusual way.
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observer
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Thu, Jan 26 2012, 7:29 pm
| hesha wrote: | as hashem yaazor said, it seems there are two versions of the name riva.
1. one is a yiddish nickname for rivkah . |
Reva as a diminutive of Rivka is HEBREW. You can check the three sources I posted above.
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Hashem_Yaazor
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Fri, Jan 27 2012, 10:11 am
Nickname for Rivka (with a hey) is "Hebrew" but not really any language, as nicknames don't mean anything for real....but it's from Hebrew, so we can leave it as is.
Little girl -- Reva with an aleph -- is not Hebrew. It's Aramaic.
Looks like Yiddish b/c it's an aleph, and it might have been common in Yiddish speaking communities as a name instead of Rivka, but the name itself doesn't appear to be Yiddish.
Whatever 
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