how to say “cinnamon” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/קינמון-#.m4a” /]קִינָּמוֹן
The Hebrew word for cinnamon is קינמון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/קינמון-#.m4a” /].
Now, you might be thinking that this is another word borrowed from English. And while I wish I could say that the opposite is true, since קימנון appears in the Torah itself, which predates the English language by millenia, it’s far more likely that קינמון – both the word and the stick – arrived in pre-biblical Israel (then called Canaan) from the Far East via the Spice Route.
Anyway, here’s קינמון in a sentence:
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/קינמון-#.m4a” /]סחלב מכינים, בין היתר, עם חלב, וניל וקינמון.
We make sachlav (a winter beverage) with, among other things, milk, vanilla and cinnamon.
