How to say “sewer” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ביוב-#.m4a” /]בִּיּוּב

sewer - ביוב

 The Hebrew word for sewer when referring to a sewer system is ביוב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ביוב-#.m4a” /]. It comes from the word ביב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ביוב-#.m4a” /] meaning gutter, which first appears in Mishnaic Hebrew.

Here’s ביוב in context:

מחר יבואו לתקן את הביוב.[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ביוב-#.m4a” /]

Tomorrow they’ll come to fix the sewer.

ביוב is a noun derived from the active-intensive פיעל verb form.

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