ברוש

Hebrew

Etymology

Root
ב־ר־שׁ (b-r-sh)

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

Noun

בְּרוֹשׁ • (brosh) m (plural indefinite בְּרוֹשִׁים)

1. cypress

Descendants

• → 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

• “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

• ברוש on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he