Dave

• IPA^(key): /deɪv/

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• Rhymes: -eɪv

Dave

1. A diminutive of the male given name David, also used as a formal given name.
   • 1994, Caroline Knapp, The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays, Counterpoint Press, published 2004, →ISBN, pages 169, 170:

     David, with its final "d", sounds finished and complete, whereas Dave just kind of hangs there in the air, indefinitely. - - - Worse, if your name is Dave, the only possible nickname is "Davey", which makes you sound like you should be wearing a coonskin cap.

2. A surname from Gujarati from Sanskrit द्विवेदिन् (dvivedin, “(one who has studied) two Vedas”).
3. (very rare) A female given name.

• Davey
• Davie
• Dwivedi

• E.D. Va., Veda, deva, vade