אסתר
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See also: אסתּר
Hebrew[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Said to be borrowed from Old Persian [script needed] (sitareh, “star”), from Proto-Iranian *Hstā́, or Akkadian Ištar (“Ishtar”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /esˈteʁ/
- (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA(key): /esˈtejr/, [ˈestejr], [ˈestər]
- (Sephardi Hebrew) IPA(key): /esˈt̪er/
- (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA(key): /æsˈteːr/
Audio (file)
Proper noun[edit]
אֶסְתֵּר • (estér) f
- Esther (Biblical character)
- a female given name, equivalent to English Esther
References[edit]
- ^ “Esther”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Categories:
- Hebrew terms borrowed from Old Persian
- Hebrew terms derived from Old Persian
- Hebrew terms derived from Proto-Iranian
- Hebrew terms borrowed from Akkadian
- Hebrew terms derived from Akkadian
- Hebrew terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hebrew terms with audio links
- Hebrew lemmas
- Hebrew proper nouns
- Hebrew feminine nouns
- Hebrew given names
- Hebrew female given names
- he:Biblical characters