חרס
Hebrew edit
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ח־ר־ס (ḥ-r-s) |
Etymology edit
From Hittite 𒂁 (ḫarši-, “a kind of rough pottery vessel”); in the Tanakhic passages it does not mean the material itself, but only a kind of vessel, which apparently derives from Asia Minor with the borrowing. Other Semitic languages have instead of this word a phono-semantic matching, under which are Classical Syriac ܚܶܙܦܳܐ (ḥezəp̄ā), Classical Syriac ܚܶܨܦܳܐ (ḥeṣəp̄ā, “piece of pottery”), whence Arabic خَزَف (ḵazaf), and Ge'ez ጻሕብ (ṣaḥb), ጻኅብ (ṣaḫb, “earthen vessel”).
Noun edit
חֶרֶס • (khéres) m (singular construct חֶרֶס־) [pattern: קֶטֶל]
Derived terms edit
- חַרְסִינָה (kharsína)
References edit
- Rabin, Chaim (1963) “Hittite Words in Hebrew”, in Orientalia, volume 32, number 2, , pages 118–120
- “חרס” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
Further reading edit
- חרס on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he