ניסן
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Aramaic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- ܢܝܣܢ (nīsān)
Etymology
[edit]From Akkadian 𒌚𒁈 (nisannum), from Sumerian 𒉠 (nesag̃).
Proper noun
[edit]נִיסָן • (nīsān) m
- (Judaism) Nisan (the seventh month of the civil year and the first month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Adar and before Iyar)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “nysn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
- Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 906
Hebrew
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Akkadian 𒌚𒁈 (nisannum), from Sumerian 𒉠 (nesag̃).
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Proper noun
[edit]נִיסָן • (nisán) m
- (Judaism) Nisan (the seventh month of the civil year and the first month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Adar and before Iyar)
- Tanach, Nehemiah 2:1, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
- וַיְהִי בְּחֹדֶשׁ נִיסָן שְׁנַת עֶשְׂרִים לְאַרְתַּחְשַׁסְתְּא הַמֶּלֶךְ יַיִן לְפָנָיו וָאֶשָּׂא אֶת־הַיַּיִן וָאֶתְּנָה לַמֶּלֶךְ וְלֹא־הָיִיתִי רַע לְפָנָיו׃
- Vayhí b-ḥódesh Nisan shnat 'esrím l-Artaḥshást' ha-mélekh yáyin l'fanáv va-esá et ha-yáyin va-etná la-mélekh v-lo hayíti ra' l'fanáv.
- And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.
- a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud, Rosh Hashanah 11a:
- רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ אוֹמֵר: בְּנִיסָן נִבְרָא הָעוֹלָם, בְּנִיסָן נוֹלְדוּ אָבוֹת, בְּנִיסָן מֵתוּ אָבוֹת
- Rabbí Yehoshúa' omér: B-Nisán nivrá ha-'olám, b-Nisán noldú avót, b-Nisán métu avót.
- Rabbi Yehoshua says: In Nisan the world was created, in Nisan the patriarchs were born, in Nisan the patriarchs died.
- a male given name
See also
[edit]- (Hebrew calendar months) תשרי, חשוון, כסלו, טבת, שבט, אדר, ניסן, אייר, סיוון, תמוז, אב, אלול (Category: he:Hebrew calendar months)
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- ניסן on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he
Yiddish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle High German niesen, from Old High German niosan, from Proto-West Germanic *hneusan, from Proto-Germanic *hneusaną, a variant of *fneusaną. Cognate with German niesen, Dutch niezen, English sneeze.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]ניסן • (nisn) (past participle גענאָסן (genosn))
- to sneeze
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of ניסן
infinitive | ניסן nisn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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present participle | ניסנדיק nisndik | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
past participle | גענאָסן genosn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
auxiliary | האָבן hobn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
present | איך ניס ikh nis |
מיר ניסן mir nisn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
דו ניסט du nist |
איר ניסט ir nist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ער ניסט er nist |
זיי ניסן zey nisn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
imperative | ניס (דו) nis (du) |
ניסט (איר) nist (ir) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Composed forms
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Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ניסן • (nisn) m
- (Judaism) Nisan (the seventh month of the civil year and the first month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Adar and before Iyar)
See also
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