Ariel
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Ariel etymologically derives from (אֲרִיאֵל, Standard Hebrew Ariʾel, Tiberian Hebrew ʾĂrîʾēl) a unisex name meaning "lion God." Other feminine variants include: Arielle, Ariele, Ariella. See also Ariel (spirit) and Names of Jerusalem.
Famous people named Ariel include:
- the female vocalist from the psychedelic trance project X-Dream.
- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel.
Ariel is any of various characters in works of fiction:
- Ariel is a spirit who was a servant of Prospero in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.
- Ariel is the chief of the sylphs serving Belinda in Alexander Pope's poem The Rape of the Lock.
- Ariel is a player in the Walpurgis Night Dream Scene of Goethe's Faust Part 1, and gives Faust water from the river Lethe in the first scene of Part 2.
- Ariel is the red-haired mermaid who is fascinated by life on dry land and falls in love with Prince Eric in the 1989 Disney movie The Little Mermaid.
- Ariel is a spirit who is bound to the Pillars of Nosgoth in the Legacy of Kain video game series.
Ariel can also refer to the following literary works:
- Ariel is the in-house magazine of the BBC, named after the statue of Shakespeare's Prospero and Ariel by Eric Gill on the front of the BBC's Broadcasting House, London.
- Ariel: a Shelley Romance is a novelized biography by André Maurois of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was drowned in a sailboat, Ariel, in the Bay of Lerici, 1822.
- Ariel is a science fiction novel by Russian author Alexander Beliaev.
- Ariel was the last book of poetry by Sylvia Plath.
The following locations are named Ariel:
- Ariel is a moon of Uranus discovered in 1851 by William Lassell.
- Ariel, West Bank is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, between Nablus and Ramallah.
Several commercial products are named Ariel:
- Ariel is a washing powder brand of Procter & Gamble.
- Ariel is a modern UK car company and also a former manufacturer of motorcycles, bicycles and cars from 1871.
- Ariel Gallery is an artist's cooperative and gallery in Asheville, North Carolina.