how to say “twins” in Hebrew

 

תְּאוֹמִים

 

 
The Hebrew word for twins is תְּאוֹמִים  listen and repeat for a male or mixed pair, and תְּאוֹמוֹת  listen and repeat for a female twins.
 
A single twin is תְּאוֹם  listen and repeat for a male and תְּאוֹמָה  listen and repeat for a female, as in:
 
יֵשׁ לְךָ תְּאוֹם?
Do you have a twin?
 

The root of all these is ת.א.מ (t.a.m), which means matching.

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