שמועה

Hebrew

Root
שׁ־מ־ע (sh-m-ʿ)

Noun

שְׁמוּעָה • (shmuá) f (plural indefinite שְׁמוּעוֹת, singular construct שְׁמוּעַת־)

1. a rumor
2. (Biblical Hebrew) a report

Derived terms

• שְׁמוּעָה רְחוֹקָה (shmuá rekhoká, “(Jewish law) belated news of someone's having died”)

Related terms

• מַה נִּשְׁמַע? (má nishmá, “How are you?”)

Descendants

• → Yiddish: שמועס (shmues)
  • → Dutch: smoes, smoezen
  • → English: schmooze, shmooze
  • → German: Schmu, Schmus, schmusen

References

• H8052 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Further reading

• שמועה on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he