משפחה
See also: משפּחה
Hebrew
editEtymology
editPerhaps related to שִׁפְחָה (shifkhá, “female slave”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /miʃpaˈχa/
Audio: (file)
Noun
editמִשְׁפָּחָה • (mishpakhá) f (plural indefinite מִשְׁפָּחוֹת, singular construct מִשְׁפַּחַת־) [pattern: מִקְטָלָה]
- family (a group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family)
- (biology, taxonomy) family (a category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank)
Declension
editisolated forms | with possessive pronouns | ||||||
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Number: | State: | form | Person: | singular | plural | ||
m | f | m | f | ||||
singular | indefinite | מִשְׁפָּחָה | first | מִשְׁפַּחְתִּי | מִשְׁפַּחְתֵּנוּ | ||
definite | הַמִּשְׁפָּחָה | second | מִשְׁפַּחְתְּךָ | מִשְׁפַּחְתֵּךְ | מִשְׁפַּחְתְּכֶם | מִשְׁפַּחְתְּכֶן | |
construct | מִשְׁפַּחַת־ | third | מִשְׁפַּחְתּוֹ | מִשְׁפַּחְתָּהּ | מִשְׁפַּחְתָּם | מִשְׁפַּחְתָּן | |
plural | indefinite | מִשְׁפָּחוֹת | first | משפחותיי / מִשְׁפְּחוֹתַי | מִשְׁפְּחוֹתֵינוּ | ||
definite | הַמִּשְׁפָּחוֹת | second | מִשְׁפְּחוֹתֶיךָ | משפחותייך / מִשְׁפְּחוֹתַיִךְ | מִשְׁפְּחוֹתֵיכֶם | מִשְׁפְּחוֹתֵיכֶן | |
construct | מִשְׁפְּחוֹת־ | third | מִשְׁפְּחוֹתָיו | מִשְׁפְּחוֹתֶיהָ | מִשְׁפְּחוֹתָם | מִשְׁפְּחוֹתָן |
Derived terms
edit- בֶּן מִשְׁפָּחָה (ben mishpakhá)
- מִשְׁפַּחְתִּי (mishpakhtí)
- שֵׁם מִשְׁפָּחָה (shém mishpakhá)
Descendants
edit- → Yiddish: משפּחה (mishpokhe), מישפּאָכע (mishpokhe) — Soviet phonetic spelling
- → Dutch: misjpooche
- → German: Mischpoche, Mischpoke
- → Hungarian: mispóche
References
editFurther reading
edit- משפחה on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he
Yiddish
editNoun
editמשפחה • (mishpokhe) f
- (nonstandard) Unpointed form of משפּחה (mishpokhe).