Hebrew

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Table of contents

1 Proper Noun 1.1 Translations 2 Proper Noun 2.1 Translations 3 Adjective 3.1 Translations 4 Unclassified Translations 5 The Hebrew letters 6 Punctuation Marks (Nikud) 7 External links

Proper Noun

Hebrew (plural Hebrews)

1. A member of a Semitic people

Translations

• Finnish: heprealainen
• French: Hébreu m
• Slovak: Hebrej m, Hebrejka f
• Vietnamese: người Do Thái

Proper Noun

Hebrew (uncountable)

1. Language of the Hebrew people

Translations

• Chinese: 希伯来语 (Xibolaiyu)
• Finnish: heprea
• French: hébreu m
• Japanese: ヘブライ語 (Heburaigo)
• (?): hebrejčina f
• Vietnamese: tiếng Do Thái
• Hebrew: עברית (Iv'rit)

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the Hebrew people
2. Of or pertaining to the Hebrew language

Translations

• Finnish: heprealainen
• French: hébreu
• Slovak: hebrejský m, hebrejská f hebrejské n
• Vietnamese: (thuộc) người Do Thái (1), (thuộc) tiếng Do Thái (2)

Unclassified Translations

These were posted before the distinction between the two nouns and the adjective. Will the natives of these languages please move the definitions wherever they belong

• Arabic: عِبْرٍيّة (`ibriyyah)
• Catalan: hebreu
• Dutch: Hebreeuws n
• Esperanto: hebreo
• German: Hebräisch
• Indonesian: Yahudi, Ibrani
• Interlingua: hebreo
• Italian: ebreo
• Malay: Ibrani
• Persian: عبري (Ebri)
• Polish: hebrajski
• Portuguese: hebraico, hebreu
• Romanian: ebraic, evreu
• Russian: иврит m
• Spanish: hebreo
• Swedish: hebreiska
• Yiddish: העברעיִש, לשון־קודש

The Hebrew letters

• [ א ] * [ ב ] * [ ג ] * [ ד ] * [ ה ] * [ ו ] * [ ז ] * [ ח ] * [ ט ] * [ י ]
• [ כ ] * [ ל ] * [ מ ] * [ נ ] * [ ס ] * [ ע ] * [ פ ] * [ צ ] * [ ק ] * [ ר ]
• [ ש ] * [ ת ]

• Final letters:

[ ך ] * [ ם ] * [ ן ] * [ ף ] * [ ץ ]

Punctuation Marks (Nikud)

• נְ (schwa) - no vowels
• עֱ (hataf-segol), נֵ (tzeireh), נֶ (segol) - "E"
• עֲ (hataf-patah), נַ (patah), נָ (kamatz)* - "A"
• עֳ (hataf-kamatz), וֹ (holam), נָ (kamatz katan)* - "O"
• נִ (hirik) - "I"
• נֻ (kubutz), וּ (shuruk) - "U"

Note: Kamatz and Kamatz Katan look exactly the same.

External links

• Hebrew - English Dictionary: from Webster's Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition.
• Wikipedia article on Hebrew