how to say “marine biology” in Hebrew
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בִּיוֹלוֹגְיָה יַמִּית
The Hebrew word for biology is בִּיוֹלוֹגְיָה
. There is an actual term for the field, but hardly anyone uses it: חֵקֶר תַּהֲלִיכֵי הַחַיִּם – literally, the study of the processes of life.
The Hebrew word for marine, when used to describe something such as biology, derives from יָם , the word for sea: יַמִּיis marine when describing something masculine, while יַמִּית is marine when describing something feminine.
Thus marine biology (biology being something feminine) is בִּיוֹלוֹגְיָה יַמִּית, while marine commando (Israel’s version of the US’s Navy Seals – commando something masculine) is הַקּוֹמַנְדּוֹ הַיַּמִּי.
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