אסתר

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Hebrew

Etymology

Said to be borrowed from Old Persian (sitareh, “star”), from Proto-Iranian *Hstā́, or Akkadian Ištar (“Ishtar”).[1]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

אֶסְתֵּר • (estér) f

  1. Esther (a book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh)
  2. (biblical) Esther (the heroine of the Book of Esther)
    Synonym: מַלְכַּת אֶסְתֵּר (malkát 'estér)
  4. a female given name, equivalent to English Esther

Descendants

References

  1. ^ “Esther”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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