how to say “thanksgiving” in Hebrew
אַפְלָיָה listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? Hebrew roots that begin in פ.ל (p.l) and פ.ר (p.r), as a rule, have something to do with separation. The root פ.ל.ה (p.l.h) is one of those roots, and it appears most notably in the word for discrimination – אַפְלָיָה listen and repeat(sometimes spelled and pronounced הַפְלָיָה listen and…
מָלוּחַ listen to this word pronounced My סַבְתָּא (SAHV-tah) grandmother is a great cook. She learned how to prepare delicious dishes from her mother back in Hungary before the war. סבתא has Hungarian taste in food. So from time to time she asks me, אֲתָּה אוֹהֵב דָּג מָלוּחַ (ah-TAH oh-HEV dahg mah-LOO-ahkh) –…
לְהַקְדִּים רְפוּאָה לְמַכָּה My dentist focuses on preventative dentistry – רפואת שיניים מונעת. Now, רפואה מונעת – preventative medicine – is a Modern-Hebrew expression. But there’s another expression, a much older one but still very much alive today: להקדים רפואה למכה – to precede the antidote (the medicine) to the blow. Basically, to plan ahead. For…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/דמות-פיקטיבית-#.m4a” /]דְּמוּת פִיקְטִיבִית The literal meaning of דמות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/דמות-פיקטיבית-#.m4a” /] is image, but in Modern Hebrew the word has come to mean a character as well, so that דמות פיקטיבית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/דמות-פיקטיבית-#.m4a” /] is a fictional character. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/דמות-פיקטיבית-#.m4a” /]רובין הוד הוא דמות פיקטיבית. Robin Hood is a fictional character. דמות comes from the root ד.מ.ה[audioclip…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/רפואה-מונעת-#.m4a” /]רְפוּאָה מוֹנַעַת While תרופה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/רפואה-מונעת-#.m4a” /] is the medicine one takes in pill or liquid form (or otherwise), רפואה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/רפואה-מונעת-#.m4a” /] refers to medicine in the general sense, as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/רפואה-מונעת-#.m4a” /]היא לומדת רפואה באוניברסיטה העברית. She is studying medicine at the Hebrew University. So what’s preventative medicine? רפואה מונעת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/רפואה-מונעת-#.m4a” /], as…