how to say “hammer” in Hebrew
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פַּטִּישׁ
Sometimes Anglos who are learning Hebrew make mistakes that native or near-native speakers find pretty funny.
A friend of mine the other day said he was planning to a go a hardware store to buy a hammer. But the word he said for hammer was פַּשְׁטִידָה , the word for quiche.
, the word for quiche.
The real word for hammer, originating in Biblical Hebrew, is פַּטִּישׁ .
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As for an example… here’s the first line of this classic Israeli holiday song:
פַּטִּישׁ, מַסְמֵר, נִקַּח מַהֵר…
A hammer, a nail, we’ll quickly take…
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