how to say “Jerusalemite” in Hebrew
יְרוּשַׁלְמִי
One of the things that make residents of this city unique is their response to snow. While Torontonians and New Yorkers and Parisians get on with their daily lives when it snows, Jerusalemites scramble for days before the cold white stuff starts coming down, stocking up as if a nuclear winter were in the forecast.
The Hebrew word for Jerusalemite or resident of Jerusalem is יְרוּשַׁלְמִי for a male and יְרוּשַׁלְמִית for a female.
for a male and יְרוּשַׁלְמִית for a female.For example:
אִם עוֹד לֹא שָׁמַעְתֶּם, יְרוּשַׁלְמִים מְצַפִּים לְסוּפַת שֶׁלֶג הַיּוֹם.
If you haven’t yet heard, Jerusalemites are expecting a blizzard today.
Likewise, the Talmud developed in the Land of Israel in antiquity is called הַתַּלְמוּד הַיְּרוּשַׁלְמִי – the Jerusalem Talmud.
– the Jerusalem Talmud.Add the ee suffix (and a t sound afterwards to make it feminine) to most cities and you get the word for a resident of that city:
תֵּל אָבִיבִי – Tel Avivian
אֵילָתִי – resident of Eilat
נְיוּ יוֹרְקִי – New Yorker
There are exceptions. For example, when there’s an ah vowel at the end of a city name, you get a different ending:
A resident of חֵיפָה – Haifa – is a חֵיפָאִי .
– Haifa – is a חֵיפָאִי .