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Forums => English & Linguistics => Topic started by: Porter on December 06, 2007, 09:54:13 AM

Title: Hebrew for Sun
Post by: Porter on December 06, 2007, 09:54:13 AM

I need the Hebrew word for sun.  In Slash's 2350 game, there's a Jewish character named Sol, and I want to refer to him by the Hebrew equivalent.  (Kinda like calling someone named Porter Porteiro.)

I forgot to ask -- does Shemesh work?  Most of the online dictionaries I can find don't give me the Hebrew word in Roman characters.

Title: Hebrew for Sun
Post by: pooka on December 06, 2007, 10:39:55 AM

This site (http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-2968(198104)40%3A2%3C135%3ATHNOTS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J) says "Hammah" or "semes".  

Title: Hebrew for Sun
Post by: rivka on December 06, 2007, 06:36:55 PM

Better, "chamah" or "shemesh" -- at least the way I transliterate. And "chamah" is not used much in modern Hebrew. More biblical.

So to answer Porter's original question ( ;) ), yes, Shemesh would work.

However. Sol is actually short for Solomon, and in Hebrew that is Shlomo. So that's really a better analog.