how to say “fancy hotel” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger July 5, 2022June 30, 2022

A Hebrew student recently said to me, over lunch, אני אוהב לאכול מָלון
. He meant to tell me that he’s likes eating melon (מֶלון
), but what came out was I like eating a hotel. We had a good laugh.

A luxury hotel is מלון פאר
, as in:

אין לנו תקציב למלונות פאר!

We don’t have (the) budget for luxury hotels!

פאר
means luxury in the case of the good life, though it also means glory. The three letters that make up פאר are also the root of תפארת
– splendor. Both words are used as names, with פאר usually for boys, and תפארת for girls.

Now, you may have noticed that while מלון
– hotel, when it stands alone, is with an ah sound, but מלון when appearing in the phrase מלון פאר
is with an eh sound – like the melon. To find out why, watch today’s video.

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ByAmi Steinberger September 10, 2019September 5, 2019

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/מילה-נרדפת-#.m4a” /]מִלָּה נִרְדֶּפֶת The Hebrew word for word is מילה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/מילה-נרדפת-#.m4a” /], which derives from the Aramaic root מ.ל.ל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/מילה-נרדפת-#.m4a” /] meaning speech. מילה is a feminine word, even though it doesn’t appear to be one in the plural: words are מילים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/מילה-נרדפת-#.m4a” /]. A synonym is מילה נרדפת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/מילה-נרדפת-#.m4a” /] – literally, a word chased/pursued (by another word, perhaps…

A Hebrew student recently said to me, over lunch, אני אוהב לאכול מָלון. He meant to tell me that he’s likes eating melon (מֶלון), but what came out was I like eating a hotel. We had a good laugh.

A luxury hotel is מלון פאר, as in:

אין לנו תקציב למלונות פאר!

We don’t have (the) budget for luxury hotels!

פאר means luxury in the case of the good life, though it also means glory. The three letters that make up פאר are also the root of תפארת – splendor. Both words are used as names, with פאר usually for boys, and תפארת for girls.

Now, you may have noticed that while מלון – hotel, when it stands alone, is with an ah sound, but מלון when appearing in the phrase מלון פאר is with an eh sound – like the melon. To find out why, watch today’s video.

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A Hebrew student recently said to me, over lunch, אני אוהב לאכול מָלון
. He meant to tell me that he’s likes eating melon (מֶלון
), but what came out was I like eating a hotel. We had a good laugh.

A luxury hotel is מלון פאר
, as in:

פאר
means luxury in the case of the good life, though it also means glory. The three letters that make up פאר are also the root of תפארת
– splendor. Both words are used as names, with פאר usually for boys, and תפארת for girls.

Now, you may have noticed that while מלון
– hotel, when it stands alone, is with an ah sound, but מלון when appearing in the phrase מלון פאר
is with an eh sound – like the melon. To find out why, watch today’s video.