how to say “universal” in Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/כלל-עולמי-#.m4a” /]אוּנִיבֶרְסָלִי, כְּלָל עוֹלָמִי

Like many words that didn’t exist in Biblical or Mishnaic times, Hebrew’s version of universal has the transliterated version – אוניברסלי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/כלל-עולמי-#.m4a” /] – as well as a proper Semitic version: כלל עולמי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/כלל-עולמי-#.m4a” /] – literally, general-worldwide.

For example:

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/כלל-עולמי-#.m4a” /]זאת לא תופעה מקומית, זאת תופעה כלל-עולמית.

This is not a local phenomenon, this is a universal phenomenon.

כלל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/כלל-עולמי-#.m4a” /] is related to word כל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/כלל-עולמי-#.m4a” /] meaning all.

עולמי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/כלל-עולמי-#.m4a” /] comes from עולם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/כלל-עולמי-#.m4a” /] meaning world or eternity.