how to say “hot air balloon” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger June 23, 2022June 17, 2022

Last week a cluster of balloons appeared in my garden, probably from a nearby birthday party.

The Hebrew word for balloon is בלון
… but when talking about a hot air balloon, the term is כדור פורח
– literally, a flying ball.

For example:

לכבוד יום ההולדת היא רוצה טיסה בכדור פורח.

For her (the) birthday she wants a flight in a hot air balloon.

Note that פורח
means flying in this case, though it normally means blooming. פורח in the sense of flying appears in Mishnaic Hebrew, notably in the Talmudic expression אותיות פורחות באוויר
– letters flying in the air (here’s a discussion of the term).

how to say “to fall” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger April 18, 2018October 18, 2018

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ליפול-1.m4a” /]לִפּוֹל The root of the word ליפול[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ליפול-1.m4a” /] is נ.פ.ל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ליפול-2.m4a” /] – since early Hebrew speakers found it troublesome to say לנפול[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ליפול-7.m4a” /], the nasal n sound disappeared, leaving only a trace in the hardening of the פ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ליפול-3.m4a” /] – from a f sound to p. In variations of ליפול, though, the n sound…

how do you say “unique” in Hebrew?

ByAmi Steinberger May 23, 2010November 5, 2018

ייחודי I’ve been blessed to work with great people at Ulpan La-Inyan. Caron our instructor, one of these such people, sent me this video clip, which I invite you all the watch. If you can’t see the clip, you’ll need to go to the Ktzat Ivrit blog. One of the key words in…

how to say “concentration camp” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger May 1, 2019May 14, 2019

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/מחנה-ריכוז-#.m4a” /]מַחֲנֵה רִכּוּז If ריכוז[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/מחנה-ריכוז-#.m4a” /] is concentration, מחנה ריכוז[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/מחנה-ריכוז-#.m4a” /] is concentration camp. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/מחנה-ריכוז-#.m4a” /]רוב הנרצחים בשואה נספו במחנות הריכוז. Most of those murdered in the Holocaust perished in the concentration camps. You may have noticed that מחנה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/מחנה-ריכוז-#.m4a” /], a masculine word, has an ות-[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/מחנה-ריכוז-#.m4a” /] ending…

how to say “to reconcile” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger March 23, 2021March 18, 2021

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/להשלים-#.m4a” /]לְהַשְׁלִים If you’ve had even the slightest experience with Hebrew, you probably know that שלום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/להשלים-#.m4a” /] means not just hello and goodbye, but also peace. So it should come as no surprise that the word for to reconcile or to make peace with someone else is להשלים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/להשלים-#.m4a” /], a הפעיל verb. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/להשלים-#.m4a”…

how to say “saturated fat” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger March 23, 2022March 17, 2022

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/שומן-רווי-#.m4a” /]שׁוּמָן רָווּי The word for fat (the noun) is שומן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/שומן-רווי-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/שומן-רווי-#.m4a” /]בשווארמה יש הרבה שומן. There’s a lot of fat in shawarma. Saturated fat is שומן רווי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/שומן-רווי-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/שומן-רווי-#.m4a” /]בישראל שמים מדבקה מיוחדת על מוצרים עם הרבה שומן רווי. In Israel (they) put a special…

how to say “to fall between the cracks” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger January 5, 2014December 11, 2018

having trouble seeing the print? לִפּוֹל בֵּין הַכִּסָּאוֹת At Ulpan La-Inyan, we try not to let such things happen. Suppose a teacher is delivering a daily lecture to a group of forty students. While many students – especially more vocal ones – may prosper, others are bound to fall between the cracks and miss…

Last week a cluster of balloons appeared in my garden, probably from a nearby birthday party.

The Hebrew word for balloon is בלון… but when talking about a hot air balloon, the term is כדור פורח – literally, a flying ball.

For example:

לכבוד יום ההולדת היא רוצה טיסה בכדור פורח.

For her (the) birthday she wants a flight in a hot air balloon.

Note that פורח means flying in this case, though it normally means blooming. פורח in the sense of flying appears in Mishnaic Hebrew, notably in the Talmudic expression אותיות פורחות באוויר – letters flying in the air (here’s a discussion of the term).

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The Hebrew word for balloon is בלון
… but when talking about a hot air balloon, the term is כדור פורח
– literally, a flying ball.

Note that פורח
means flying in this case, though it normally means blooming. פורח in the sense of flying appears in Mishnaic Hebrew, notably in the Talmudic expression אותיות פורחות באוויר
– letters flying in the air (here’s a discussion of the term).