שמיר

Alteration of שֻׁמָּר (šummā́r, “fennel”)

שָׁמִיר • (šamīr) m

1. (a thorny type of plant)
   • Tanach, Isaiah 32:13, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     עַל אַדְמַת עַמִּי קוֹץ, שָׁמִיר תַּעֲלֶה; כִּי עַל־כָּל־בָּתֵי מָשׂוֹשׂ, קִרְיָה עַלִּיזָה.

     'al admát 'ammí qotz, shamír ta'lé; ki 'al-kol-batḗ masós, qiryá 'allizá.

     For the land of my people, whereon thorns and briers come up; Yea, for all the houses of joy, and the joyous city.

Probably an unattested word from an Anatolian language. This word is also ancestral to Ancient Greek Σμύρνᾱ (Smúrnā, “Smyrna, Izmir”), and the dialectal forms Aeolic, Attic Ancient Greek Μύρρᾱ (Múrrhā), Ionian Ancient Greek Σμύρνη (Smúrnē), whose name would derive from the emery deposit in the area.

Cognates include Ancient Egyptian Ꜣsmr, Egyptian jsmr, smr “emery”, JPA, JLA Aramaic שָׁמִירָא‬‎ (šāmīrā), Classical Syriac ܫܡܝܪܐ‬‎ (šmyr’), whence Arabic سَامُور‬‎ (sāmūr). Ancient Greek σμύρῐς (smúris, “emery-powder”) likely loaned from a Semitic cognate of the Hebrew.

שָׁמִיר • (shamír) m

1. emery, corundum

• Ayil, Ephraim S. (2024). "Chapter 15 ‮שָׁמִיר‬‎ Šāmīr—Emery". In Identifying the Stones of Classical Hebrew. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004678002_016
• “שמיר” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

• שבת ריחני on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he

Deverbal from שמירן (shmirn). Cognate to German Schmiere. Cognate with German schmieren, English smear.

שמיר • (shmir) m, plural שמירן (shmirn)

1. batch of things that go together
2. aggregate, smear, spread
3. bribe
4. schmear, the whole package, the entire deal

• שמירן (shmirn, “to smear, grease; to bribe”)

• → English: shmear

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

שמיר • (shmir)

1. inflection of שמירן (shmirn):
   1. first-person singular present
   2. imperative singular