סרט

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Aramaic

Etymology

Cognate to Arabic شَرَطَ (šaraṭa).

Verb

סרט • (transliteration needed)

  1. to scratch
  2. to draw (produce a picture)

References

  • “srṭ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–

Hebrew

סרט
סרט

Etymology

Root
ס־ר־ט (s-r-ṭ)
4 terms

The root ס־ר־ט occurs but postbiblically and its words are utterly Aramaic borrowings or derivations from it.

A native cognate to Arabic شَرَطَ (šaraṭa) would be **שָׂרַט (śāraṭ) but is only included in Bibles by textual corruption and is missing in Biblical Hebrew dictionaries and critical editions of the Tanakh postdating the long nineteenth century.

Pronunciation

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Noun

סֶרֶט • (séret) m (plural indefinite סְרָטִים, singular construct סֶרֶט־, plural construct סִרְטֵי־)

  1. ribbon
  2. (by extension, photography) film (a medium used to capture images in a camera)
  3. (by extension, countable) film (the sequence of still images itself; a movie)

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • “סרט” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
  • Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 1025
  • Klein, Ernest (1987) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎, Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 458c

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