פרי

See also: פֿרי and פּרי

Hebrew

פירות טריים

Etymology

Root
פ־ר־ה (p-r-h)
4 terms

From Proto-Semitic *piry-. Cognate with Ge'ez ፍሬ (fəre) and Ugaritic 𐎔𐎗 (pr /⁠pirû⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /pəˈriː/, [pə̆ˈriː]
• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /pəˈri/, [pʰaˈʀiː]
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /pʁi/

Noun

פְּרִי • (pri) m (plural indefinite פירות / פֵּרוֹת, singular construct פְּרִי־, plural construct פֵּרוֹת־, Biblical Hebrew pausal form פֶּרִי) [pattern: קְטִי]

1. (botany) fruit (a product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:)
2. fruit (any sweet or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see former sense) even if it does not develop from a floral ovary)
3. (biblical, uncountable) fruit

Declension

Declension of פְּרִי

	isolated forms		with possessive pronouns
Number:	State:	form	Person:	singular		plural
				m	f	m	f
singular	indefinite	פְּרִי	first	פִּרְיִי		פִּרְיֵנוּ
	definite	הַפְּרִי	second	פִּרְיְךָ	פִּרְיֵךְ	פִּרְיְכֶם	פִּרְיְכֶן
	construct	פְּרִי־	third	פִּרְיוֹ	פִּרְיָהּ	פִּרְיָם	פִּרְיָן
plural	indefinite	פֵּרוֹת	first	פרותיי / פְּרוֹתַי		פְּרוֹתֵינוּ
	definite	הַפֵּרוֹת	second	פְּרוֹתֶיךָ	פרותייך / פְּרוֹתַיִךְ	פְּרוֹתֵיכֶם	פְּרוֹתֵיכֶן
	construct	פְּרוֹת־	third	פְּרוֹתָיו	פְּרוֹתֶיהָ	פְּרוֹתָם	פְּרוֹתָן

Descendants

• → Yiddish: פּרי (peyre)

References

• H6529 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987) “פְּרִי”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 527c
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[2], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 1225b
• “פרי” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

Further reading

• פרי on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he