how to say “camera” in Hebrew
After having landed yesterday at LAX, I attended services this morning at my beloved community synagogue in which I was raised, Chabad of Encino. Following the prayers I sat in Rabbi Gordon’s class on the Torah portion, which is videotaped and uploaded daily. You can check it out here.
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| Rabbi Joshua B. Gordon of Chabad of the Valley |
The Hebrew word for camera was one my first: my father, who taught me Hebrew, is a photographer – צַלָּם (tsah-LAHM) – by profession. The profession itself, as well as the act of photographing, is צִלּוּם (tsee-LOOM), a noun deriving from the “intensive” פיעל (pee-EL) verb, לְצַלֵּם (leh-tsah-LEM).
The word for camera is מַצְלֵמָה (mahts-leh-MAH).
And a video camera – like the one documenting Rabbi Gordon’s lesson this morning – is a מַצְלֵמַת וִידֵאו (mahts-leh-MAHT VEE-deh-oh).
