Words – Word Meanings – Foreign Languages

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בסימה דרומיא - balsamic vinegar (of Rome)
- Perek / Halacha: Pesachim 3:1
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 22a
- Vilna Shas: 19b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 512
- Venice / Bomberg: 29d
- dark color, not necessarily black שחור
- Perek / Halacha: Maasros 1:2
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 3b
- Vilna Shas: 2b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: *
- Venice / Bomberg: 48c
Karmelis, karmel rach(soft) mal (crush), neither moist nor dry, rather an intermediate state, here too not public domain nor private domain rather something in between
- Perek / Halacha: Shabbos 1:1
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 6b
- Vilna Shas: 5b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 367
- Venice / Bomberg: 2d
Nabateans pronounce the word ‘חספא’ as ‘כספא’
- Perek / Halacha: Nedarim 1:2
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 4a
- Vilna Shas: 3b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 1021
- Venice / Bomberg: 37a
Nabateans pronounce the word ‘חספא’ as ‘כספא’
- Perek / Halacha: Nazir 1:1
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 2a
- Vilna Shas: 1b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 1097
- Venice / Bomberg: 51a
the identification of the plants and grains listed in Kilayim 1:1
- Perek / Halacha: Kilayim 1:1
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 2b
- Vilna Shas: 1b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 145
- Venice / Bomberg: 26d
words that are possibly spelled with a א or a ע, and therefore their meanings may differ
- Perek / Halacha: Eruvin 5:1
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 33a
- Vilna Shas: 30b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 473
- Venice / Bomberg: 22b
איסטליות - stone monument, stele
- Perek / Halacha: Sotah 7:5
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 35a
- Vilna Shas: 32a
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 936
- Venice / Bomberg: 21d
איסטרולוגוס - astrologist
- Perek / Halacha: Shabbos 6:9
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 48a
- Vilna Shas: 39a
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 400
- Venice / Bomberg: 8d
איסטרטא - איסרטא - street
- Perek / Halacha: Gittin 4:1
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 18a
- Vilna Shas: 20a
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 1066
- Venice / Bomberg: 45c
איסטרטא - איסרטא - street
- Perek / Halacha: Moed Katan 3:7
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 21a
- Vilna Shas: 17b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 821
- Venice / Bomberg: 83b
איסטרטייא - street, highway
- Perek / Halacha: Shabbos 1:1
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 6a
- Vilna Shas: 5a
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 366
- Venice / Bomberg: 2d
איסטרטין - street
- Perek / Halacha: Shabbos 6:2
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 43b
- Vilna Shas: 35b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 396
- Venice / Bomberg: 8a
אלוניסתין - Hellenists
- Perek / Halacha: Sotah 7:1
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 31b
- Vilna Shas: 29a
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 933
- Venice / Bomberg: 21b
אתנא סירא - athanasia, deathlessness, immortality
- Perek / Halacha: Moed Katan 3:7
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 21b
- Vilna Shas: 18a
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 822
- Venice / Bomberg: 83b
בולבטייא - noblemen, heads of family
- Perek / Halacha: Chagigah 2:2
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 12b
- Vilna Shas: 11a
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 787
- Venice / Bomberg: 77d
בישול can also be used to describe roasting
- Perek / Halacha: Nazir 6:9
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 34a
- Vilna Shas: 31a
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 1121
- Venice / Bomberg: 55c
בליצטירא - ballista
- Perek / Halacha: Sotah 8:3
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 38a
- Vilna Shas: 35a
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 938
- Venice / Bomberg: 22b
בריכה - can mean a layered branch, a blessing, name of a person
- Perek / Halacha: Orlah 1:3
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 9b
- Vilna Shas: 5b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 334
- Venice / Bomberg: 61a
גיבסס - gypsum
- Perek / Halacha: Moed Katan 1:2
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 3a
- Vilna Shas: 2b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 802
- Venice / Bomberg: 80b
דילטוריא - slander, informer, deleterious
- Perek / Halacha: Shabbos 1:2
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 9a
- Vilna Shas: 7a
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 368
- Venice / Bomberg: 3b
הגמונייא - hegemony, jurisdiction
- Perek / Halacha: Gittin 1:1
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 1a, 3b
- Vilna Shas: 1a 4b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 1055
- Venice / Bomberg: 43a 43b
הדר - Akilas translated hadar as hidor, hydra, hydro
- Perek / Halacha: Sukkah 3:5
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 18b
- Vilna Shas: 14b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 646
- Venice / Bomberg: 53d
וחמשים, found in Exodus 13:18 hints to five weapons worn by the Jews who left Egypt
- Perek / Halacha: Shabbos 6:4
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 45a
- Vilna Shas: 36b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 398
- Venice / Bomberg: 8b
חלד in Psalms 49:2 means weasel which is unique among land animals, or weasel which stores items it will never use
- Perek / Halacha: Shabbos 14:1
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 90b
- Vilna Shas: 74b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 432
- Venice / Bomberg: 14c
טורטורין - טטרגונה - four (tetra)
- Perek / Halacha: Sotah 8:3
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 40a
- Vilna Shas: 36b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 940
- Venice / Bomberg: 22d
טורטורין - טטרגונה - four (tetra)
- Perek / Halacha: Sotah 7:5
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 35b
- Vilna Shas: 32b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 936
- Venice / Bomberg: 21d
טטרגון, טריגון, דיגון - four, three, two
- Perek / Halacha: Nazir 1:2
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 3a
- Vilna Shas: 2b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 1098
- Venice / Bomberg: 51b
טרמנטן - tormentum, torment
- Perek / Halacha: Sotah 8:3
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 38a
- Vilna Shas: 35a
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 938
- Venice / Bomberg: 22b
כיפה - cap
- Perek / Halacha: Gittin 4:4
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 20b
- Vilna Shas: 22b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 1068
- Venice / Bomberg: 45d
כרקום - to encircle (circum)
- Perek / Halacha: Gittin 3:4
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 15a
- Vilna Shas: 17a
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 1064
- Venice / Bomberg: 45a
כרקום - to encircle (circum)
- Perek / Halacha: Kesubos 2:9
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 15a-b
- Vilna Shas: 14a
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 965
- Venice / Bomberg: 26a 26d
מיסכן - poor person, unfortunate person
- Perek / Halacha: Chagigah 2:2
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 12b
- Vilna Shas: 11a
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 787
- Venice / Bomberg: 77d
מלפפון - gourd / cucumber - word of Greek origin melo - melon / fruit, pepon - squash
- Perek / Halacha: Kilayim 1:2
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 3a
- Vilna Shas: 2a
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 146
- Venice / Bomberg: 26d
מסטריקון - mystery, secret
- Perek / Halacha: Shabbos 12:4
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 86b
- Vilna Shas: 70b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 429
- Venice / Bomberg: 13d
מסר - give over, מוסירה - reins
- Perek / Halacha: Gittin 2:3
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 10b
- Vilna Shas: 12a
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 1060
- Venice / Bomberg: 44b
נפט - naphtha
- Perek / Halacha: Sotah 8:3
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 38a
- Vilna Shas: 35a
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 938
- Venice / Bomberg: 22b
סנטריה - sentry, watchman
- Perek / Halacha: Sheviis 4:2
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 28b
- Vilna Shas: 11a
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 190
- Venice / Bomberg: 35b
פוליטיקיס - politician, nobility
- Perek / Halacha: Terumos 2:2
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 22b
- Vilna Shas: 12b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: *
- Venice / Bomberg: 41a
פלטיא - plaza
- Perek / Halacha: Pesachim 2:2
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 16a
- Vilna Shas: 14b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 508
- Venice / Bomberg: 29a
פלטיא - plaza
- Perek / Halacha: Shabbos 1:1
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 6a
- Vilna Shas: 5a
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 366
- Venice / Bomberg: 2d
ציפורין - implies all birds, or just kosher varieties?
- Perek / Halacha: Nazir 1:1
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 2b
- Vilna Shas: 2a
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 1098
- Venice / Bomberg: 51b
קומפרומיסין - compromise
- Perek / Halacha: Moed Katan 3:3
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 14b
- Vilna Shas: 12b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 812
- Venice / Bomberg: 82a
קנבס - cannibus?
- Perek / Halacha: Kilayim 2:3
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 13b
- Vilna Shas: 7b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: *
- Venice / Bomberg: 27c
קנדילוי - candles
- Perek / Halacha: Maaser Sheni 5:2
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 49a
- Vilna Shas: 29b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 304
- Venice / Bomberg: 56a
קרטס - paper, document (Greek origin)
- Perek / Halacha: Nazir 5:1
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 22b
- Vilna Shas: 22a
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 1113
- Venice / Bomberg: 54a
שוחדא דדייני - the discretion (toss, bribe, power) of the judges, same as שודא דדייני
- Perek / Halacha: Kesubos 10:4
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 62b
- Vilna Shas: 59b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 1003
- Venice / Bomberg: 33d
תוהו - thick darkness
- Perek / Halacha: Chagigah 2:1
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 9b
- Vilna Shas: 8b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 782
- Venice / Bomberg: 77a
תרונגייא - esrog, citron, turunj (Persian for citron)
- Perek / Halacha: Sukkah 3:10
- Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 21a
- Vilna Shas: 16b
- Academy of Hebrew Language: 648
- Venice / Bomberg: 54a

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Words - Word Meanings - Foreign Languages

בסימה דרומיא - balsamic vinegar (of Rome)

- dark color, not necessarily black שחור

Karmelis, karmel rach(soft) mal (crush), neither moist nor dry, rather an intermediate state, here too not public domain nor private domain rather something in between

Nabateans pronounce the word ‘חספא’ as ‘כספא’

Nabateans pronounce the word ‘חספא’ as ‘כספא’

the identification of the plants and grains listed in Kilayim 1:1

words that are possibly spelled with a א or a ע, and therefore their meanings may differ

איסטליות - stone monument, stele

איסטרולוגוס - astrologist

איסטרטא - איסרטא - street

איסטרטא - איסרטא - street

איסטרטייא - street, highway

איסטרטין - street

אלוניסתין - Hellenists

אתנא סירא - athanasia, deathlessness, immortality

בולבטייא - noblemen, heads of family

בישול can also be used to describe roasting

בליצטירא - ballista

בריכה - can mean a layered branch, a blessing, name of a person

גיבסס - gypsum

דילטוריא - slander, informer, deleterious

הגמונייא - hegemony, jurisdiction

הדר - Akilas translated hadar as hidor, hydra, hydro

וחמשים, found in Exodus 13:18 hints to five weapons worn by the Jews who left Egypt

חלד in Psalms 49:2 means weasel which is unique among land animals, or weasel which stores items it will never use

טורטורין - טטרגונה - four (tetra)

טורטורין - טטרגונה - four (tetra)

טטרגון, טריגון, דיגון - four, three, two

טרמנטן - tormentum, torment

כיפה - cap

כרקום - to encircle (circum)

כרקום - to encircle (circum)

מיסכן - poor person, unfortunate person

מלפפון - gourd / cucumber - word of Greek origin melo - melon / fruit, pepon - squash

מסטריקון - mystery, secret

מסר - give over, מוסירה - reins

נפט - naphtha

סנטריה - sentry, watchman

פוליטיקיס - politician, nobility

פלטיא - plaza

פלטיא - plaza

ציפורין - implies all birds, or just kosher varieties?

קומפרומיסין - compromise

קנבס - cannibus?

קנדילוי - candles

קרטס - paper, document (Greek origin)

שוחדא דדייני - the discretion (toss, bribe, power) of the judges, same as שודא דדייני

תוהו - thick darkness

תרונגייא - esrog, citron, turunj (Persian for citron)