how to say “readable” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger

 

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קָרִיא

 

 

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Yesterday we saw the word לָעִיס (lah-EES), meaning chewy or chew-able. This adjective comes from the simple verb, לִלְעוֹס.

חיילים מתפללים במדבר
To this day, the Torah is read out loud
to benefit those who cannot read…
or cannot read Hebrew anyway (we can help).


This Shabbat’s Torah reading can be found here.



Today I’ll introduce a word of the same structure, but from a different verb. קָרִיא means legible or readable, deriving from the simple verb, לִקְרוֹא (leek-ROH) meaning to read (or to call out – since texts were once read out loud by the literate elite to the illiterate masses).

Note how the adjectives קָרִיא and לָעִיס have identical vowel patterns, as do the verbs they derive from, לִקְרוֹא and לִלְעוֹס.

The feminine version of readable is קְרִיאָה (keh-ree-AH), which looks and sounds the same as the word for the act of reading.


שבת שלום וסוף שבוע נעים לכולם!
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