Hebrew

English

Etymology

From Middle English Ebreu, from Old French Ebreu, from Latin hebraeus or hebraicus, from Ancient Greek Ἑβραῖος (hebraios), from Aramaic [script?] ('ibrāy), from Hebrew עברי (ivrí), from Hebrew עבר (ever).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhiːbɹuː/

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Adjective

Hebrew (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the Hebrew people or language.

Synonyms

• Hebraic

Translations

pertaining to the people

• Arabic: عبري (ʕíbri)
• Armenian: հրեական (hreakan), եբրայական (ebrayakan)
• Asturian: hebréu (ast), hebraicu (ast)
• Basque: hebrear
• Catalan: hebreu (ca), hebraic
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: simpl. 希伯来人

• Czech: hebrejský m
• Dutch: Hebreeuws (nl)
• Esperanto: hebrea (eo)
• Estonian: heebrealane
• Finnish: heprealainen (fi)
• French: hébreu (fr), hébraïque (fr)
• Galician: hebraico
• German: hebräisch (de)
• Greek: εβραϊκός (el) (evraïkós)
• Hebrew: עִבְרִי m (ivrí), עִבְרִית (he) f (ivrít)

• Hungarian: héber (hu)
• Italian: ebraico (it)
• Latin: hebraeus
• Malay: orang Ibrani, Ibrani
• Norwegian: hebraisk (no)
• Polish: hebrajski (pl) m
• Portuguese: hebraico (pt)
• Romanian: evreiesc (ro)
• Russian: еврейский (ru) m (jevréjskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хебрејски m

  Roman: hebrejski m

• Slovak: hebrejský m
• Spanish: hebreo (es)
• Swedish: hebreisk
• Vietnamese: (thuộc) người Do Thái
• Volapük: hebreyanik

pertaining to the language

• Arabic: عبري

  Egyptian Arabic: عبري m (ʕebri)

• Asturian: hebréu (ast), hebraic (ast)
• Basque: hebrear
• Catalan: hebreu (ca), hebraic
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: simpl. 希伯来语

• Czech: hebrejský m
• Danish: hebraisk, hebræisk
• Esperanto: hebrea (eo)
• Estonian: heebreakeelne
• Finnish: hepreankielinen (fi)
• French: hébreu (fr), hébraïque (fr)
• Galician: hebraico
• German: hebräisch (de)
• Greek: εβραϊκός (el) (evraïkós)
• Greenlandic: Hebræerisut (kl)
• Hebrew: עִבְרִי m (ivrí), עִבְרִית (he) f (ivrít)
• Hungarian: héber (hu)

• Icelandic: hebreskur (is)
• Italian: ebraico (it)
• Latin: hebraeus
• Malay: bahasa Ibrani, Ibrani
• Norwegian: hebraisk (no)
• Polish: hebrajski (pl) m
• Portuguese: hebraico (pt)
• Romanian: ebraic (ro)
• Russian: еврейский (ru) m (jevréjskij), (noun) иврит (ru) m (ivrít)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хебрејски, јеврејски, хибру, ивритски

  Roman: hebrejski, jevrejski, hibru, ivritski

• Slovak: hebrejský m
• Spanish: hebreo (es)
• Swedish: hebreisk, hebreiskspråkig
• Vietnamese: (thuộc) tiếng Do Thái
• Volapük: Hebreyapükik, hebreyik (vo)
• Yiddish: העברעיש (yi) (hebreish)

Noun

Hebrew (plural Hebrews)

1. A member or descendant of a Semitic people claiming descent from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
2. A descendant of the biblical Patriarch Eber.

Derived terms

• Hebrewess
• Shebrew

Translations

person

• Arabic: عِبْرِيّ m (ʕíbriy), عبرية (ar) f (ʕibríyya)
• Armenian: եբրայեցի (ebrayecʿi), հրեա (hrea)
• Basque: hebrear
• Catalan: hebreu (ca) m, hebrea (ca) f
• Dutch: Hebreeër m, Hebreeërs, Hebreeuwse, Hebreïnne f, Hebreeuwsen
• Esperanto: hebreo
• Estonian: heebrealane
• Finnish: heprealainen (fi)
• French: Hébreu (fr) m
• German: Hebräer m, Hebräerin f
• Greek: Εβραίος (el) m (Evraíos), Εβραία (el) f (Evraía)
• Hebrew: עִבְרִי m (ivrí), עִבְרִים m pl (ivrím), עִבְרִיָּה f (ivriyá), עִבְרִיּוֹת f pl (ivriyót)
• Hungarian: héber (hu)
• Indonesian: orang Ibrani
• Interlingua: hebreo
• Irish: (♂♀) Eabhrach
• Italian: ebreo (it) m

• Japanese: ヘブライ (Heburai)
• Korean: 유대인 (ko) (yudaein), 히브리인 (hibeuriin)
• Latin: hebraeus
• Malay: orang Ibrani, Ibrani
• Norwegian: hebraer m
• Polish: Hebrajczyk m, Hebrajka f
• Portuguese: hebreu (pt) m, hebraico (pt) m, hebreia f, hebraica f
• Romanian: evreu (ro) m, evreică (ro) f
• Russian: еврей (ru) m (jevréj)
• Scottish Gaelic: (♂♀) Eabhrach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Хебреј m

  Roman: Hebrej m

• Slovak: Hebrej m, Hebrejka f
• Spanish: hebreo (es) m
• Swedish: hebré
• Vietnamese: người Do Thái
• Volapük: (♂♀) hebreyan (vo), (♂) hihebreyan, (♀) jihebreyan

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Indonesian: Yahudi, Ibrani
• Persian: عبری (fa) (ebri), عبرانی (fa) (ebrani)

Proper noun

Hebrew

1. The Semitic language spoken by the Hebrew people.
2. The writing system used in Hebrew language.

Translations

language

• Albanian: gjuha hebraike (sq)
• Arabic: العِبْرِيَّة f (al-3ibríyyah), اليهودية f (al-yahudíyya)

  Egyptian Arabic: عبري m (ʕebri)

• Armenian: եբրայերեն (hy) (ebrayeren)
• Asturian: hebréu (ast) m
• Azeri: İvrit dili (az)
• Basque: hebreera (eu)
• Belarusian: іўрыт m (iŭrýt)
• Bulgarian: иврит (bg) m (ivrít), староеврейски език m (staroevréjski ezík)
• Catalan: hebreu (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 希伯來語, 希伯来语 (zh) (Xībólái-yǔ)

• Crimean Tatar: İbrani tili
• Czech: hebrejština (cs) f
• Danish: hebraisk
• Dutch: Hebreeuws (nl) n
• Esperanto: hebreo
• Estonian: heebrea keel
• Finnish: heprea (fi), heprean kieli
• French: hébreu (fr) m
• Galician: hebreo (gl) m, hebraico
• German: Hebräisch (de) n
• Greek: εβραϊκά (el) n pl (evraïká)
• Greenlandic: Hebraimiutut
• Hebrew: עִבְרִית (he) f (ivrít)
• Hindi: इब्रानी (hi) m (ibrānī)
• Hungarian: héber (hu)
• Icelandic: Hebreska
• Indonesian: ibrani, bahasa Ibrani (id)
• Interlingua: hebreo

• Irish: Eabhrais f
• Italian: ebraico (it) m
• Japanese: ヘブライ語 (ja) (Heburai-go)
• Jèrriais: Hébreu m
• Korean: 히브리어 (ko) (Hibeuri-eo)
• Latin: hebraeus
• Malay: bahasa Ibrani, Ibrani
• Navajo: Hííbwoo bizaad
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hebraisk (no) m

  Nynorsk: hebraisk m

• Polish: hebrajski (pl) m
• Portuguese: hebraico (pt) m, hebreu (pt) m
• Romanian: limba ebraică f, ebraică (ro) f
• Russian: иврит (ru) m (ivrít), древнееврейский язык m (drevnejevréjskij jazýk)
• Scottish Gaelic: Eabhra f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хебрејски, јеврејски, хибру, иврит m

  Roman: hebrejski, jevrejski, hibru, ivrit m

• Sinhalese: හේබ්‍රෙව් භාෂාව (hēb‍rav bhāṣāva)
• Slovak: hebrejčina (sk) f
• Spanish: hebreo (es) m
• Swedish: hebreiska (sv) c
• Thai: ภาษาฮิบรู (paa-săa híp-roo)
• Turkish: İbranice (tr)
• Ukrainian: іврит (uk) m (ivrýt)
• Urdu: عبرانی m (ibrānī)
• Vietnamese: tiếng Hê-brơ (vi), tiếng Do Thái (vi)
• Volapük: Hebreyapük, hebrey (vo)
• Yiddish: לשון־קודש n (loshn-koydesh)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Indonesian: Yahudi, Ibrani
• Persian: عبری (fa) (ebri), عبرانی (fa) (ebrani)

Hyponyms

• Ivrit

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Hebrew terms
• Hebrew language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Hebrew language

References

• “Hebrew” in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
• “Hebrew” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
• "Hebrew" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

External links

• ISO 639-1 code he, ISO 639-3 code heb
• Ethnologue entry for Hebrew, he