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• Ebrew (obsolete)

語源

From 中期英語 Ebreu, from Old French Ebreu, from Latin hebraeus or hebraicus, from Ancient Greek Ἑβραῖος (Hebraîos), from Aramaic עִבְרַי (ʿiḇray), from Hebrew עִבְרִי (ʿiḇrī́).

発音

• IPA: /ˈhiːbɹuː/

形容詞

Hebrew (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the Hebrew people or language.
   • 1995 May 21, Steven Levy, “The Unabomber and David Gelernter”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 6 November 2020:

     Nothing hangs on the walls, though a stained-glass Hebrew chai leans against the window.

同意語

• Hebraic

派生語

参考

• Israelite
• Israelitish
• Jewish

名詞

Hebrew (countable and uncountable, plural Hebrews)

1. (countable) A member or descendant of a Semitic people claiming descent from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
2. (countable) A descendant of the biblical Patriarch Eber.
3. (uncountable) The Semitic language spoken by the Hebrew people.
   • 2019 December 22, Annalee Newitz and Cyrus Farivar, “Nick Farmer knows dozens of languages, so he invented one for The Expanse”, in Ars Technica‎, archived from the original on 12 November 2020:

     The resulting Belter creole is a crazy mix of English, Chinese, romance languages like French, German, Persian, Hebrew, Zulu, and a few other surprises. Farmer says he has over 1,000 Belter words in his personal dictionary, and he keeps adding more as the show’s producers and fans request them.

4. (uncountable) The writing system used in Hebrew language.
5. (uncountable, colloquial) Unintelligible speech or writing.

下位語

• (people): Jew, Samaritan
• (language): Biblical Hebrew, Ivrit, Neo-Hebraic

派生語

• (language): Biblical Hebrew, Classical Hebrew, Neo-Hebrew
• Hebrewess
• Shebrew (humorous)

参考

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Hebrew terms

参照

• “Hebrew”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “Hebrew”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "Hebrew" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code he, ISO 639-3 code heb (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Hebrew, heb ⁠
• Hebrew language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia