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חרבן

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Hebrew

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Etymology

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Back-formation from חֶרְבּוֹן (kherbón, failure, disaster), which is a phono-semantic matching of Arabic خَرْبَان (ḵarbān, broken, damaged, spoiled), and a doublet of חֻרְבָּן / חורבן (khurbán, destruction, ruin) and חֲרָבוֹן (kharavón, drought, heat).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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חִרְבֵּן (khirbén) (pi'el construction, passive counterpart חורבן / חֻרְבַּן)

  1. (colloquial, transitive) to cause failure, to ruin, to spoil, to fuck something up
    Synonyms: הָרַס, שִׁבֵּשׁ / שיבש, הֶחֱרִיב
    הוּא חִרְבֵּן אֶת כָּל הַתׇּכְנִיּוֹת שֶׁלִּי.
    khirbén et kol hatokhniyót shelí.
    He ruined all my plans.
  2. (colloquial, derogatory) to shit, to defecate
    Synonyms: עָשָׂה קָקִי, יָצָא, הֶחְרִיא, עָשָׂה צְרָכָיו, שִלשֵל / שילשל, הִפְרִישׁ צוֹאָה
    אֲנִי חַיָּב לְחַרְבֵּן.
    aní khayáv l'kharbén.
    I need to take a shit.
  3. (colloquial, derogatory) to not give a shit [with עַל]
    Synonyms: שָׂם זַיִן, שָׂם פַּס
    הוּא מְחַרְבֵּן עָלָיו.
    m'kharbén aláv.
    He doesn't give a shit about him.
    • 1986, Amnon Dankner, מחפשים את גואלמן, זמורה, ביתן, page 181:
      לָגַם מֵהַקָּפֶה וְאָמַר: ”אֲנִי מְחַרְבֵּן עַל הַפַּלְמָ״ח.”
      lagám mehakafé v'amár: "aní m'kharbēn al haPalmákh"
      He took a sip from his coffee and said, "I don't give a fuck about the Palmach."

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