עכבר

Hebrew

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʿakbar- (“mouse”). The computing term is a semantic loan from English mouse.

Noun

עַכְבָּר

עַכְבַּר מַחְשֵׁב

עַכְבָּר • (akhbár) m (plural indefinite עַכְבָּרִים, singular construct עַכְבַּר־, plural construct עַכְבְּרֵי־)

1. mouse (animal)
2. computer mouse

References

• H5909 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Further reading

• (biology):
  • עכבר on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he
• (computing):
  • עכבר (מחשב) on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he