שמואל
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Hebrew
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of שֵׁם (šēm, “name”) and אֵל (ʾēl, “god”). The first part is often said to be שָׁמַע (šāmáʿ, “to hear, to listen”) since elistic names tend to derive from exhortations from verbs, however this is unlikely since the third radical ע (ʿ) of the verb is absent. Other interpretations posit derivation from roots meaning “God” as in Heaven or the upper sky (see שָׁמַיִם (šāmáyim)) and “high” (see עלי (literally “elevation”)) giving “God is high”.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /ˈʃmu.el/
- (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA(key): /ʃmu.ejl/
- (Sephardi Hebrew) IPA(key): /ʃemuˈel/
- (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA(key): /ʃæ̆muˈʔel/
- (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA(key): /ʃămuˈʔel/
- (Biblical Hebrew) IPA(key): /ʃəmuːˈʔeːl/
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Proper noun
[edit]שְׁמוּאֵל • (šəmūʾḗl) m
- Samuel (biblical figure)
- a male given name, equivalent to English Samuel
- Samuel I and II (taken as one book)
Descendants
[edit]Yiddish
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]שמואל • (shmuel) m
- (biblical) Samuel
- a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Samuel
Derived terms
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- Hebrew proper nouns
- Hebrew masculine nouns
- Hebrew given names
- Hebrew male given names
- Yiddish lemmas
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- Yiddish masculine nouns
- yi:Biblical characters
- Yiddish given names
- Yiddish male given names
- Yiddish male given names from Hebrew