how to say “blindness” in Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/התבוללות-#.m4a” /]הִתְבּוֹלְלוּת You may know the Hebrew expression לבלבל את המוח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/התבוללות-#.m4a” /] – to drive someone crazy, or literally, to confuse the brain. לבלבל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/התבוללות-#.m4a” /], whose four-letter ב.ל.ב.ל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/התבוללות-#.m4a” /] root is a linguistically-mutated version of ב.ל.ל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/התבוללות-#.m4a” /], means to confuse things. ב.ל.ל is also the root of the word assimiliation – התבוללות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/התבוללות-#.m4a” /]….

  סַמִּים  listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet?     The Modern-Hebrew word for drugs is סַמִּים  listen and repeat, while one drug is סַם  listen and repeat. These refer to street drugs only – the word for medicine is תְּרוּפָה  listen and repeat.   For example:   סַמִּים בְּדֶרֶךְ כְּלָל מְמַכְּרִים. (Street) drugs are usually addictive….

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/לסירוגין-#.m4a” /]לְסֵרוּגִין Bars protecting your window from intruders – סורגים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/לסירוגין-#.m4a” /] – have large gaps between them to let in the light and air. This is the idea behind the originally-Mishnaic Hebrew word לסירוגין[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/לסירוגין-#.m4a” /], on and off or intermittently: there are gaps in time between events, such as moments of sleep. For example:…