Hebrew Definition
Hebrew
Hebrew edition of Wiktionary
English
Etymology
From Middle English Ebreu, from Old French Ebreu, from Latin hebraeus or Hebraic, from Ancient Greek Ἑβραῖος (hebraios), from Aramaic ('ibrāy), from Hebrew עברי (ivrí), from Hebrew עבר (ever).
Pronunciation
Adjective
Hebrew (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the Hebrew people or language.
Noun
Hebrew (plural Hebrews)
- A member or descendant of a Semitic people claiming descent from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- A descendant of the biblical Patriarch Eber.
Derived terms
Translations
person
- Arabic: عِبْرِيّ (ʕíbriy) m., عبرية (ʕibríyya) f.
- Armenian: եբրայեցի (hy) (ebrayec’i), հրեա (hy) (hrea)
- Basque: hebrear (eu)
- Bosnian: Hebrej m.
- Catalan: hebreu, m., hebrea f.
- Dutch: Hebreeër (nl) m., Hebreeërs / Hebreeën pl., Hebreeuwse / Hebreïnne f., Hebreeuwsen / Hebreïnnen pl.
- Esperanto: hebreo (eo)
- Estonian: heebrealane
- Finnish: heprealainen (fi)
- French: Hébreu m. (Hébreux, m. pl.)
- German: Hebräer m. pl., Hebräerin f.
- Greek: Εβραίος (Evréos) m., Εβραία (Evréa) f., Εβραίοι (Evréi) m. pl., Εβραίες (Evrées) f. pl.
- Hebrew: עברי (he) (ivrí) m., עברים (he) (ivrím) / עבריים (he) (ivriyím) m. pl., עבריה (he) (ivriyá) f., עבריות (he) (ivriyót) f. pl.
- Hungarian: héber (hu)
- Interlingua: hebreo
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- Italian: ebreo (it) m.
- Japanese: ヘブライ (ja) (heburai)
- Korean: 유대인 (ko) (yudaein), 히브리인 (ko) (hibeuriin)
- Latin: hebraeus (la)
- Norwegian: hebraer (no) m.
- Polish: Hebrajczyk m., Hebrajka f.
- Portuguese: hebreu, hebraico m., hebreia, hebraica f.
- Romanian: evreu m., evreică f., evrei m. pl., evreice f. pl.
- Russian: еврей (ru) (jevréj) m.
- Serbian:
- Cyrillic: Хебреј m.
- Roman: Hebrej m.
- Slovak: Hebrej m., Hebrejka f.
- Spanish: hebreo (es)
- Swedish: hebré (sv)
- Vietnamese: người Do Thái
- Volapük: (male or female) hebreyan (vo), (male) hihebreyan (vo), (female) jihebreyan (vo)
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Proper noun
Hebrew
- The Semitic language spoken by the Hebrew people.
- The writing system used in Hebrew language.
Translations
language
- Albanian: gjuha hebraike (sq)
- Arabic: العِبْرِيَّة (ar) (al-3ibríyyah) f., اليهودية (ar) (al-yahudíyya) f.
- Armenian: եբրայերեն (hy) (ebrayeren)
- Azeri: İvrit dili (az)
- Basque: hebreera (eu)
- Belarusian: іўрыт (be) (iŭrýt) m.
- Bosnian: hebrejski, jevrejski, hibru, ivrit m.
- Bulgarian: иврит (bg) (ivrít) m., староеврейски език (bg) (staroevréjski ezík) m.
- Catalan: hebreu m.
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 希伯來語 (cmn), 希伯来语 (cmn) (Xībólái-yǔ)
- Crimean Tatar: İbrani tili
- Czech: hebrejština (cs) f.
- Danish: hebraisk (da)
- Dutch: Hebreeuws (nl) n.
- Esperanto: hebreo (eo)
- Estonian: heebrea keel
- Finnish: heprea (fi), heprean kieli (fi)
- French: hébreu (fr) m.
- German: Hebräisch (de) n.
- Greek: εβραϊκά (el) (evraiká) n. pl.
- Hebrew: עברית (he) (ivrít) f.
- Hindi: इब्रानी (hi) (ibrānī) m.
- Icelandic: Hebreska (is)
- Indonesian: ibrani
- Interlingua: hebreo
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- Irish: Eabhrais (ga) f.
- Italian: ebraico (it) m.
- Japanese: ヘブライ語 (ja) (Heburai-go)
- Korean: 히브리어 (ko) (Hibeuri-eo)
- Latin: hebraeus (la)
- Navajo: Hííbwoo bizaad
- Norwegian: hebraisk (no)
- Polish: hebrajski (pl) m.
- Portuguese: hebraico (pt) m., hebreu (pt) m.
- Romanian: limba ebraică (ro) f., ebraică (ro) f.
- Russian: иврит (ru) (ivrít) m., древнееврейский язык (ru) (drevnejevréjskij jazýk) m.
- Scottish Gaelic: Eabhra f.
- Serbian:
- Cyrillic: хебрејски, јеврејски, хибру, иврит m.
- Roman: hebrejski, jevrejski, hibru, ivrit m.
- Sinhalese: හේබ්රෙව් භාෂාව (si) (hēbrev bhāṣāva)
- Slovak: hebrejčina (sk) f.
- Spanish: hebreo (es) m.
- Swedish: hebreiska (sv) c.
- Thai: ภาษาฮิบรู (th) (paa-săa híp-roo)
- Turkish: İbranice (tr)
- Ukrainian: іврит (uk) (ivrýt) m.
- Urdu: عبرانی (ur) (ibrānī) m.
- Vietnamese: tiếng Hê-brơ (vi), tiếng Do Thái (vi)
- Volapük: Hebreyapük (vo), hebrey (vo)
- Yiddish: לשון־קודש (yi) (loshn-koydesh) n.
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See also
References
- “Hebrew” in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
- “Hebrew” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
- "Hebrew" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.
External links
- ISO 639-1 code , ISO 639-3 code (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Hebrew,
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