ברוש

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Hebrew

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Etymology

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Root
ב־ר־שׁ (b-r-sh)

An old borrowing from Proto-Iranian *hampr̥sā. Doublet of בְּרֹות (brot), the Aramaic form.

Noun

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בְּרוֹשׁ • (brosh) m (plural indefinite בְּרוֹשִׁים)

  1. cypress

Descendants

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  • → Ge'ez: ቢሮሽ (biroš), ቤሩሽ (beruš, “cypress”) (from the singular)
  • → Ge'ez: ቢሩሲም (birusim), በርሲም (bärsim), ቤሬሲም (beresim), ቤሩሲም (berusim, “cypress”) (from the plural)

References

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  • “ברוש” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
  • Klein, Ernest (1987) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 84

Further reading

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