על
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Aramaic[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Preposition[edit]
על • (transliteration needed)
Hebrew[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Cognate to Arabic عَلَى (ʿalā), Ge'ez ላዕለ (laʿlä).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /al/
Preposition[edit]
עַל • (al)
- (literally) On, on top of.
- (figuratively) On.
Usage notes[edit]
- Various verbs are construed with the preposition על; for example, ויתר על (vitér al) means “to give up on”.
Inflection[edit]
Inflection table
| Non-personal-pronoun-including form | עַל ('al) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personal-pronoun- including forms |
Singular | Plural | ||
| Masculine | Feminine | Masculine | Feminine | |
| First person | עליי \ עָלַי ('alái) | עָלֵינוּ ('aléinu) | ||
| Second person | עָלֶיךָ ('alékha) | עלייך \ עָלַיִךְ ('aláyikh) | עֲלֵיכֶם ('aleikhém) | עֲלֵיכֶן ('aleikhén) |
| Third person | עָלָיו ('aláv) | עָלֶיהָ ('aléha) | עֲלֵיהֶם ('aleihém) | עֲלֵיהֶן ('aleihén) |
Prefix[edit]
עַל • (ál)
- Super-: above; more than; larger than.
- מִשְׁפָּחָה (mishpakhá, “family”) → עַל־מִשְׁפָּחָה (ál-mishpakhá, “superfamily”)
- יַבֶּשֶׁת (yabéshet, “continent”) → יַבֶּשֶׁת־עַל (yabéshet-ál, “supercontinent”)
- טִבְעִי (tiv'í, “natural”) → עַל־טִבְעִי (ál-tiv'í, “supernatural”)
Usage notes[edit]
- Typically used to form calques from English and other languages.
- Sometimes attached to the following word via a hyphen; otherwise, separated by a space.
- In some compounds, follows the base word as a suffix rather than preceding it as a prefix.
Antonyms[edit]
- (super-): תת־ (tát-, “sub-”)
Suffix[edit]
עַל • (ál)
- Alternative form of the prefix; see above.
