ראש השנה

See also: ראָש־השנה

Hebrew

Etymology

From רֹאשׁ (rosh-, “head of”) + הַשָּׁנָה (hashaná, “the year”); hence literally “the head of the year”.

Pronunciation

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˌʁoʃ haʃaˈna/
• (Sephardi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˌroʃ haʃaˈna/
• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˌʀoʃ haʃːɔˈnɔ/

Noun

רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה • (rosh-hashaná) m

1. Rosh Hashanah, Jewish New Year: a holiday beginning on the first day of the month of Tishrei and marking the beginning of the Jewish liturgical year.
2. (more generally) Any of the four new years laid out in the Mishnah.

Descendants

• → Arabic: رَأْس السَّنَة (raʔs as-sana) (calque)
• → Catalan: Roix ha-Xanà
• → English: Rosh Hashanah
• → French: Roch Hachana
• → German: Rosch ha-Schana
• → Ladino: ראש השנה (Rosh Ashaná)
• → Russian: Рош Ха-Шана (Roš Xa-Šana)
• → Spanish: Rosh Hashaná
• → Yiddish: ראָש־השנה (roshe-shone)

Proper noun

רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה • (rosh-hashaná) m

1. Rosh Hashanah; a book of the Mishnah, and the corresponding books of the Gemarah.

See also

• יָמִים נוֹרָאִים
• עֲשֶׂרֶת יְמֵי תְּשׁוּבָה
• יוֹם הַכִּפּוּרִים

Further reading

• ראש השנה on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he
• מסכת ראש השנה on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he
• Hebrew calendar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Ladino

Etymology

From Hebrew ראש השנה.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌroʃ aʃaˈna/

Noun

ראש השנה m (Hebrew spelling, Latin spelling Rosh Ashana)

1. Rosh Hashanah
   • 1910, Ben Yitzhak Saserdoti, Refael i Miriam, page 3:

     אירה אונה די אקילייאס מאדֿרוגאדֿאס פֿריסקאס אי טיירנאס אין איל מיס די סיפטימברי, אינטרי ראש השנה אי יום כפור.

     Era una de akelyas maḏrugaḏas freskas i tiernas en el mes de septembre, entre Rosh Ashana i Yom Kippur.

     It was one of those fresh, tender early mornings in the month of September, between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.