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Arabic
Noun
אפה • (transliteration needed) f (plural אפאת (ʔāfāt))
- Judeo-Arabic spelling of آفَة (ʔāfa, “damage, calamity, plague”)
c. 10th century, Saadia Gaon, Tafsir, Exodus 10:1:תׄם קאל אללה למוסי אדכׄל אלי פרעון פאני קד קוית קלבה וקלב קואדה לכי אחל אפאתי הדׄה בהם׃- ṯumma qāla llāhu limūsā dḵul ʔilā firʕawna faʔinnī qad qawwaytu qalbahu wa-qalba quwwādihi likay ʔuḥilla ʔāfātī hāḏihi bahum.
- Then God said to Moses: Come to Pharaoh for I have just strengthened his heart and the heart of his commanders so that I might set upon them these my plagues.
Hebrew
Pronunciation
Verb
אָפָה • (afá) (pa'al construction, infinitive לֶאֱפוֹת, future יֹאפֶה, imperative אֱפֵה, passive participle אָפוּי, passive counterpart נֶאֱפָה)
- to bake
הוא אוהב לאפות לחם.- hu ohev le'efot lekhem.
- He loves to bake bread.
Tanach, Genesis 19:3, with translation of the New International Version:וַיִּפְצַר־בָּם מְאֹד וַיָּסֻרוּ אֵלָיו וַיָּבֹאוּ אֶל־בֵּיתוֹ וַיַּעַשׂ לָהֶם מִשְׁתֶּה וּמַצּוֹת אָפָה וַיֹּאכֵלוּ׃- But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
1055, Samuel ibn Naghrillah, אִם תֵּבְךְּ (“If you cry”):לוּ יֶחֱזֵנִי נָח, וְהוּא רָשׁ, יֵדַע / בַּמֶּה יְמִינִי הוֹד וְהוֹן אָסָפָה. ¶ מֵרִיב בְּיָגֵעַ וְאוֹפֶה סֹלֶת / פִּיו יַאֲכִיל סֹלֶת אֲשֶׁר לוֹ אָפָה.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1935, Shai Agnon, סיפור פשוט (“A Simple Story”) (translated by Hillel Halkin):
[…] וידיה הקטנת עושות מלאכה הרבה, מבשלת ואופה ומכבסת ומאחה את הקרעים.- and her small hands did every kind of task: the cooking and the baking and the washing and the mending.
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