A masculine given name, often short for Avraham (Abraham) in Hebrew. Also refers to AVI file format (Audio Video Interleave) in computing.
As a name, from Hebrew 'Avi' meaning 'my father'. As a file format, AVI stands for Audio Video Interleave, developed by Microsoft in 1992 for multimedia container format.
The name Avi demonstrates Hebrew's beautiful economy - a single syllable carries the weight of 'my father', showing how Semitic languages pack profound relationship concepts into remarkably compact forms.
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