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Aryeh-Leib

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Aryeh-Leib (אריה-לייב‎) or Aryeh Loeb is a bilingual pleonasmic Jewish name doublet, literally 'lion-lion', traceable back to the Hebrew word אריהarye "lion" and the Middle High German word lewe "lion".[1]: 138  Notable people with the name include:

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  1. ^ Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2003), Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403917232 [1]