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
- 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.
- (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
- Rosh Hashanah; a book of the Mishnah, and the corresponding books of the Gemarah.
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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌroʃ aʃaˈna/
Noun
ראש השנה m (Hebrew spelling, Latin spelling Rosh Ashana)
- 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.
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