אסתר
See also: אסתּר
Hebrew edit
Etymology edit
Said to be borrowed from Old Persian [script needed] (sitareh, “star”), from Proto-Iranian *Hstā́, or Akkadian Ištar (“Ishtar”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /esˈteʁ/
- (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA(key): /esˈtejr/, [ˈestejr], [ˈestər]
- (Sephardi Hebrew) IPA(key): /esˈt̪er/
- (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA(key): /æsˈteːr/
Audio (file)
Proper noun edit
אֶסְתֵּר • (estér) f
- Esther (Biblical character)
- a female given name, equivalent to English Esther
References edit
- ^ “Esther”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.