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Abracadabra (other)
''Abracadabra'' is an incantation used by stage magicians, and formerly in Gnosticism and ancient Roman medicine. Abracadabra, abra cadabra or abra kadabra may also refer to: Music *Abra Cadabra, stage name of British rapper Aaron Philips (born 1997) *Abracadabra (band), American indie pop band founded in 2019 Albums *Abracadabra (ABC album), ''Abracadabra'' (ABC album), 1991 *Abracadabra (Buck-Tick album), ''Abracadabra'' (Buck-Tick album), 2020 *Abracadabra (Claire Hamill album), ''Abracadabra'' (Claire Hamill album), 1975 *Abracadabra (Florent Pagny album), ''Abracadabra'' (Florent Pagny album), 2006 *Abracadabra (Steve Miller Band album), ''Abracadabra'' (Steve Miller Band album), 1982 Songs *Abracadabra (Brown Eyed Girls song), "Abracadabra" (Brown Eyed Girls song), 2009 *Abracadabra (Lady Gaga song), "Abracadabra" (Lady Gaga song), 2025 *Abracadabra (Steve Miller Band song), "Abracadabra" (Steve Miller Band song), 1982 *"Abra-ca-dabra", a 1973 single by The DeFranco Famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abracadabra
''Abracadabra'' is a magic word, historically used as an Apotropaic magic, apotropaic incantation on amulets and common today in stage magic. The actual origin is unknown, but one of the first appearances of the word was in a second-century work by Roman physician Serenus Sammonicus. Etymology ''Abracadabra'' is of unknown origin, and is first attested in a second-century work of Serenus Sammonicus relating to a cure for a fever. Some conjectural etymologies are: from phrases in Hebrew language, Hebrew that mean "I will create as I speak", or Aramaic "I create like the word" (), to etymologies that point to similar words in Latin and Greek such as abraxas or to its similarity to the first four letters of the Greek alphabet (alpha-beta-gamma-delta or ΑΒΓΔ). However, "no documentation has been found to support any of the various conjectures". The historian Don Skemer suggests that it might originate from the Hebrew phrase ''ha brachah dabarah'' (name of the blessed), said ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |