how to say “colony” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/מושבה-#.m4a” /]מוֹשָׁבָה

Some of you may know this word from the Religious-Zionist camps of North America, Camp Moshava.

Without insinuating that Jews and Israelis are trying to take over the world, מושבה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/מושבה-#.m4a” /] does mean colony. In today’s usage, מושבה generally refers to neighborhoods in Israel established by foreign nations such the Greeks and the Germans.

For example:

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/מושבה-#.m4a” /]בירושלים יש כמה שכונות הקרויות מושבות.

In Jerusalem there are several neighborhoods called colonies.

מושבה comes from the root י.ש.ב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/מושבה-#.m4a” /] meaning to dwell or to sit. י.ש.ב is also the root of יישוב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/מושבה-#.m4a” /] – settlement and מושב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/מושבה-#.m4a” /] – agricultural community similar to a kibbutz.

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