אצל

Hebrew

Root
א־צ־ל (ʾ-ts-l)
4 terms

Pronunciation

• (Modern Israeli) IPA^(key): /ˈe.t͡sel/

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Preposition

אֵצֶל • ('étsel) [pattern: קֵטֶל]

1. At or to the home or office of (a person), or the like.

   הייתי אתמול אצל רותי. ― hayíti 'etmól 'étsel rúti. ― I was at Ruthie’s yesterday.

2. With, in the possession of.

   אצל מי הספר? ― 'étsel mí haséfer? ― Who has the book? (literally, “With whom is the book?”)

3. (archaic) Next to, by, alongside.

Inflection

Inflection table

base form	אֵצֶל (étsel)
Personal-pronoun- including forms	singular		plural
	m	f	m	f
1st person	אֶצְלִי ('etslí)		אֶצְלֵנוּ ('etslénu)
2nd person	אֶצְלְךָ ('etsl'khá)	אֶצְלֵךְ ('etslékh)	אֶצְלְכֶם ('etsl'khém)	אֶצְלְכֶן ('etsl'khén)
3rd person	אֶצְלוֹ ('etsló)	אֶצְלָהּ ('etsláh)	אֶצְלָם ('etslám)	אֶצְלָן ('etslán)

References

• H681 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Iraqi Arabic

Pronunciation

• (Baghdad) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)asˤəl/

Noun

אצל (ˀaṣǝl) m

1. Judeo-Arabic spelling of أَصْل (ʔaṣl, “origin, source”)‎‎