Rare wordsחמרמורתFunny... I probably never came over this word before because I've rarely (maybe never?) got in the situation when it's being used. Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, meet the Hebrew word for hangover: חֲמַרְמוֹרֶת. There are two interesting things associated with this word: פרוור, פרבר, аnd peripheryBy pure accident, I've seen this spelling in Google: פרוור (full vocalization: פּרַוָר.) I think, I've never seen it beforehand, or maybe it just never drew my attention. Somehow I used to read it "parvar" with the V-sound, but the only spelling I've ever seen was פרבר. I looked at Wikipedia then, and discovered couple of interesting things.
גרידאגְּרֵידָא , גְּרֵדָא
Reading Walla news, I've suddenly encountered another word I've never met before. Its meaning is the same as רק or בלבד: only, just this, the only thing. Dictionaries (like my Even-Shoshan) don't mark any stress in this word, which implicitely means the stress is on the last syllable. הִואHebrew, what a language! In Hebrew, she is hee, he is hoo, and who is mee... Now, how would you read this word? הִוא That's a standard Hebrew word הוא (meaning "he"), but it's vocalized like the word היא (which means "she".) You can find it in the biblical texts all over the place. אחואָחוּ Although English word "meadow" is in a quite frequent use, somehow its Hebrew equivalent is not. After living in Israel for more than a decade, I didn't know this word. Powered by WebRing. |