how to say “urban” in Hebrew
עִירוֹנִי
The Hebrew word for city, going back to the earliest books in Bible, is עִיר .
. Already in Mishnaic times, Hebrew began employing עיר to describe the then-novel concepts of urban and municipal – as well as an urbanite (city dweller), rendering the word עִירוֹנִי .
.For example:
יֵשׁ לָנוּ סִפְרִיָּה עִירוֹנִית.
We have a municipal library.
and
הָעִירוֹנִים חוֹשְׁבִים שֶׁהֵם יוֹדְעִים הַכֹּל.
(The) urbanites think they know everything.
Don’t confuse עירוני with the word for ironic – אִירוֹנִי . Although the two words sound similar in Modern-Hebrew pronunciation, they mean two different things and are spelled differently.
. Although the two words sound similar in Modern-Hebrew pronunciation, they mean two different things and are spelled differently.