שווא
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Hebrew
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Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Syriac ܫܘܳܝܳܐ (š'waya, literally “even, equal”), in Syriac a term for a sign consisting of two vertical dots used to separate parts of a sentence.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /ˈʃva/
Noun
[edit]שווא / שְׁוָא • (shva, šəwɔʾ) m
- the Hebrew diacritical mark shva (ִ◌ְ)
- schwa (unstressed vowel sound)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “שוא” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
Further reading
[edit]- ^ אהרן דותן (דויטשר) (Aron Dotan a.k.a. Aron Deutscher) (1953) “שמותיו של השוא בראשיתו של הדקדוק העברי (The names of the schwa at the beginning of Hebrew grammar)”, in Lĕšonénu: A Journal for the Study of the Hebrew Language and Cognate Subjects / לשוננו: כתב-עת לחקר הלשון העברית והתחומים הסמוכים לה[1], volume י"ט (19), number קובץ מיוחד תשי"ד (special file 2014), Academy of the Hebrew Language, pages 13-30
- שווא on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he
- Shva on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
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שׁ־ו־א (sh-w-ʾ) |
Noun
[edit]- falsehood, futility
- (literary) emptiness, vanity, uselessness, pointlessness
- Tanach, Exodus 20:7, with translation of the King James Version:
- לֹא תִשָּׂא אֶת שֵׁם ה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ לַשָּׁוְא כִּי לֹא יְנַקֶּה ה׳ אֵת אֲשֶׁר יִשָּׂא אֶת שְׁמוֹ לַשָּׁוְא׃
- Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Derived terms
[edit]- לשווא / לַשָּׁוְא (lasháv)
References
[edit]- H7723 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- “שוא” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
Yiddish
[edit]Noun
[edit]שווא • (shvo) m
- (nonstandard) Unpointed form of שוואָ (shvo).
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- Hebrew terms borrowed from Classical Syriac
- Hebrew terms derived from Classical Syriac
- Hebrew terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hebrew lemmas
- Hebrew nouns
- Hebrew masculine nouns
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- Hebrew literary terms
- Hebrew terms with quotations
- he:Diacritical marks
- Yiddish lemmas
- Yiddish nouns
- Yiddish masculine nouns
- Yiddish unpointed forms