חצי
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Hebrew
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /ˈχet͡si/ (חֵצִי)
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /χaˈt͡si/ (חֲצִי)
Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]חֲצִי or חֵצִי • (khatsí or khétsi) m or f (plural indefinite חֲצָאִים, singular construct חֲצִי־, plural construct חֲצָאֵי־) [pattern: קֵטֶל]
- half
- 2016, “לנשום [Breathe]”, Yossi Gispan, Eliad Nahum (lyrics), Shimon Buskila and Eliad Nahum (music):
Declension
[edit]isolated forms | with possessive pronouns | ||||||
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Number: | State: | form | Person: | singular | plural | ||
m | f | m | f | ||||
singular | indefinite | חֲצִי | first | חֶצְיִי | חֶצְיֵנוּ | ||
definite | הַחֲצִי | second | חֶצְיְךָ | חֶצְיֵךְ | חֶצְיְכֶם | חֶצְיְכֶן | |
construct | חֲצִי־ | third | חֶצְיוֹ | חֶצְיָהּ | חֶצְיָם | חֶצְיָן | |
plural | indefinite | חֲצָאִים | first | חצאיי / חֲצָאַי | חֲצָאֵינוּ | ||
definite | הַחֲצָאִים | second | חֲצָאֶיךָ | חצאייך / חֲצָאַיִךְ | חֲצָאֵיכֶם | חֲצָאֵיכֶן | |
construct | חֲצָאֵי־ | third | חֲצָאָיו | חֲצָאֶיהָ | חֲצָאֵיהֶם | חֲצָאֵיהֶן |
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- בַּחֲצִי פֶּה (bakhatsí pe)
- חֲצִי אִי (khatsí í)
- חֲצִי הַלַּיְלָה (khatsí haláyla)
- חצי עיגול / חֲצִי עִגּוּל (khatsí igúl)
Descendants
[edit]- >? Judeo-Italian:
- → Italian: gazzimme (Roman, archaic; perhaps borrowed directly from Hebrew)
References
[edit]- H2677 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- “חצי” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
Further reading
[edit]חצי on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he
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- Hebrew terms belonging to the root ח־צ־ה
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- Hebrew lemmas
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- Hebrew terms in the pattern קֵטֶל
- Hebrew masculine nouns
- Hebrew feminine nouns
- Hebrew nouns with multiple genders
- Hebrew terms with quotations
- Hebrew fractional numbers