how to say “splitter” in Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/זקן-ז-#.m4a” /]זָקָן The Hebrew word for beard is זקן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/זקן-ז-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/זקן-ז-#.m4a” /]יפה לך זקן! You look good with a beard! The letters in this word look identical to those of the word for elderly man – זקֵן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/זקן-ז-#.m4a” /], but the two are not related. What today is a single letter ז[audioclip…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/דרישות-1.m4a” /]דְּרִישׁוֹת In Biblical Hebrew, לדרוש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/דרישות-2.m4a” /] means to seek out, usually a person or a piece of evidence. In Mishnaic times, rabbis began to seek out meanings within texts – the process of מדרש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/דרישות-3.m4a” /] – Midrash (in Arabic, the parallel root درس – d.r.s – means study). In Modern Hebrew, לדרוש means primarily to demand – to seek…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/תחבורה-ציבורית-#.m4a” /]תַּחְבּוּרָה צִבּוּרִית Here’s a completely modern expression with ancient roots. The root ח.ב.ר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/תחבורה-ציבורית-#.m4a” /], appearing already in the stories of Abraham, means connection. Modern Hebrew took the root, plugged it into a common structure and came up with תחבורה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/תחבורה-ציבורית-#.m4a” /] – transportation, or a system of connecting point A and point B. ציבורי[audioclip…