כלב
Appearance
See also: כּלבֿ
Hebrew
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Semitic *kalb-.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Biblical Hebrew) IPA(key): /kalb/
- (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA(key): /ˈka.lav/, [ˈkʰæː.læv]
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /ˈke.lev/
Noun
[edit]כֶּלֶב • (kɛ́lɛḇ, kélev) m (plural indefinite כְּלָבִים, singular construct כֶּלֶב־, plural construct כַּלְבֵי־, feminine counterpart כַּלְבָּה) [pattern: קֶטֶל]
- dog (the species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding)
- (derogatory) scoundrel, bitch
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- כְּלַבְלַב (klavláv)
- כֶּלֶב זְאֵב (kélev ze'év)
- כֶּלֶב כְּנַעֲנִי (kélev kna'aní)
- כֶּלֶב־יָם (kélev-yam)
- כֶּלֶב־נָהָר (kélev-nahár)
- כַּלְבָן (kalván)
- כַּלֶּבֶת (kalévet)
- קור כלבים / קֹר כְּלָבִים (kor klavím)
References
[edit]- H3611 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Klein, Ernest (1987) “כֶּלֶב”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 276c
- “כלב” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
Further reading
[edit]כלב on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he
Persian
[edit]Noun
[edit]כלב • (kalb)
- Judeo-Persian spelling of کلب (kalb).
- 1600s, Elisha ben Shmūel, translated by Dalia Yasharpour, The Prince and the Sufi: The Judeo-Persian Rendition of the Buddha Biographies, Brill, published November 9, 2020:
- צֿנאן גשתה וֿגִודש פיש מן כֿאר
כה פנדארם כם אז כלבסת צד באר- čenin gašte vojud-aš piš-e man xâr
ke pendâram kam az kalb ast sad bâr - His existence for me has become so base
That I view him infinitely lower than a dog.
- čenin gašte vojud-aš piš-e man xâr
Yiddish
[edit]Noun
[edit]כלב • (kelev) m, plural כלבים (klovem)
- (nonstandard) Unpointed form of כּלבֿ (kelev).
Categories:
- Hebrew terms belonging to the root כ־ל־ב
- Hebrew terms inherited from Proto-Semitic
- Hebrew terms derived from Proto-Semitic
- Hebrew terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hebrew lemmas
- Hebrew nouns
- Hebrew terms in the pattern קֶטֶל
- Hebrew masculine nouns
- Hebrew derogatory terms
- he:Dogs
- Persian lemmas
- Persian nouns
- Persian terms with quotations
- Yiddish lemmas
- Yiddish nouns
- Yiddish masculine nouns
- Yiddish unpointed forms