חלום
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare Aramaic חֶלְמָא (ḥelmā), Arabic حُلْم (ḥulm), Amharic ሕልም (ḥəlm).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /χaˈlom/
Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]חֲלוֹם • (khalóm) m (plural indefinite חֲלוֹמוֹת, singular construct חֲלוֹם־) [pattern: קְטוֹל]
- dream
- a. 500 C.E., Genesis Rabbah, 17:5:
- רַבִּי חֲנִינָא בַּר יִצְחָק אָמַר: ג׳ נוֹבְלוֹת הֵן: נוֹבֶלֶת מִיתָה שֵׁינָה, נוֹבֶלֶת נְבוּאָה חֲלוֹם, נוֹבֶלֶת הָעוֹלָם הַבָּא שַׁבָּת.
- Rabbi Ḥanina bar Yitzḥak said: There are three microcosms; sleep is a microcosm of death; a dream is a microcosm of prophecy; Shabbat is a microcosm of the World to Come.
- 2008, Boaz Banai, “Green River [נהר ירוק]”:
- קץ חלום \ צריך להיות יותר ריאלי \ כי בסוף הרחוב הזה \ רואה שאת לא מחכה לי
- End of a dream / Need to be more realistic / Because at the end of the this street / I see that you're not waiting for me.
Declension
[edit]| isolated forms | with possessive pronouns | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number: | State: | form | Person: | singular | plural | ||
| m | f | m | f | ||||
| singular | indefinite | חֲלוֹם | first | חֲלוֹמִי | חֲלוֹמֵנוּ | ||
| definite | הַחֲלוֹם | second | חֲלוֹמְךָ | חֲלוֹמֵךְ | חֲלוֹמְכֶם | חֲלוֹמְכֶן | |
| construct | חֲלוֹם־ | third | חֲלוֹמוֹ | חֲלוֹמָהּ | חֲלוֹמָם | חֲלוֹמָן | |
| plural | indefinite | חֲלוֹמוֹת | first | חלומותיי / חֲלוֹמוֹתַי | חֲלוֹמוֹתֵינוּ | ||
| definite | הַחֲלוֹמוֹת | second | חֲלוֹמוֹתֶיךָ | חלומותייך / חֲלוֹמוֹתַיִךְ | חֲלוֹמוֹתֵיכֶם | חֲלוֹמוֹתֵיכֶן | |
| construct | חֲלוֹמוֹת־ | third | חֲלוֹמוֹתָיו | חֲלוֹמוֹתֶיהָ | חֲלוֹמוֹתָם | חֲלוֹמוֹתָן | |
Derived terms
[edit]- חֲלוֹמוֹת בְּאַסְפַּמְיָה (khalomót b'espamyá)
Related terms
[edit]- חָלַם (khalám)
Further reading
[edit]Yiddish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- כאָלעם (kholem) — Soviet phonetic spelling
Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (YIVO, Northeastern) IPA(key): [ˈχɔləm]
- (Mideastern) IPA(key): [ˈχuːləm]
- (Southeastern) IPA(key): [ˈχuləm]
Noun
[edit]חלום • (kholem) m, plural חלומות (khaloymes)
Derived terms
[edit]- בייזער חלום (beyzer kholem)
- חלומדיק (kholemdik)
- פֿאַרחלומט (farkholemt)
- פּותר־חלום (poyser-kholem)
Related terms
[edit]- חלומען (kholemen)
Categories:
- Hebrew terms belonging to the root ח־ל־ם
- Hebrew terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hebrew terms with audio pronunciation
- Hebrew lemmas
- Hebrew nouns
- Hebrew terms in the pattern קְטוֹל
- Hebrew masculine nouns with plurals ending in ־ות
- Hebrew masculine nouns
- Hebrew terms with quotations
- he:Sleep
- Yiddish terms derived from Hebrew
- Yiddish terms derived from the Hebrew root ח־ל־ם
- Yiddish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Yiddish lemmas
- Yiddish nouns
- Yiddish masculine nouns