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Hebrew
Etymology
From ראשון (rishón) + ־י (-í).
Adjective
רִאשׁוֹנִי • (rishoní) (feminine רִאשׁוֹנִית, masculine plural רִאשׁוֹנִים or רִאשׁוֹנִיִּים, feminine plural רִאשׁוֹנִיּוֹת)
- Initial, primary, first, starting.
- דיווח ראשוני ― divúakh rishoní ― an initial report
- הון ראשוני ― hón rishoní ― seed capital
- יער ראשוני ― yá'ar rishoní ― primary forest
- יצרן ראשוני ― yatsrán rishoní ― a primary producer
- מקור ראשוני ― makór rishoní ― a primary source
- רושם ראשוני ― róshem rishoní ― a first impression
- מבנה ראשוני ― mivné rishoní ― primary structure (e.g. of a protein)
- השוק הראשוני ― hashúk harishoní ― the primary market
- (mathematics, of a natural number) Prime: having no divisors besides itself and one.
- (mathematics, of a ring) Prime: such that the product of two nonzero elements is nonzero.
Derived terms
References
- “ראשוני” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
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