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Hebrew
Etymology
From כיתת (kitát-, “class of”) + יורים (yorím, “shooters”).
Noun
כיתת יורים / כִּתַּת יוֹרִים • (kitát-yorím) f (plural indefinite כיתות יורים, singular construct כיתת יורי־, plural construct כיתות יורי־)
- firing squad
- 1991 Isiah Austridn (translator), Gabriel García Márquez (author), Hebrew translation of Cien años de soledad (1967):
שנים רבות לאחר־כך, כשיעמוד הקולונל אַאוּרליאנוֹ בוּאֶנדִיָה מול כיתת־היורים, ייזכר באותו ערב רחוק שלקח אותו אביו לראות קרח.- shaním rabót l'akhár-kakh, k'sheya'amód hakólonel a'ureliáno bu'endía mul kitát-hayorím, yizakhér ba'otó érev rakhók shelakákh otó avív lir'ót kérakh.
- Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.[1]
References
- ^ English translation taken from: Gregory Rabassa (translator, 1970), Gabriel García Márquez (author), One Hundred Years of Solitude, HarperCollins (publisher, 2004), →ISBN, page 1.