Omer

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See also: omer and Ömer

English

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Etymology 1

Variant of omer

Noun

Omer (uncountable)

  1. (Judaism, usually with 'the') The 49-day period from the second day of Passover to Shavuot, begun and ended with an offering of a sheaf of barley and noted nightly during evening prayer.
    The counting of the Omer — the Sefiras HaOmer — is a mitzvah.
  2. (Judaism) Alternative form of omer: the sheaf of barley offered on the second day of Passover.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Possibly from the Hebrew verb אמר (“to say, to tell”), itself cognate with Arabic أَمَرَ (ʔamara, “to command”).

Proper noun

Omer

  1. (biblical) A masculine name included within a Biblical genealogy as a descendant of Esau at Genesis 36:11.

Anagrams

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Etymology

Ultimately from Frankish *Audamār, which consists of Proto-Germanic *audaz (“wealth, riches”) and *mēraz (“famous”). Cognates include Czech and German Otmar.

Cognates of *ōd- from *audaz include the first part of the given names Otto, Edward and Edmund. See also Old English ēad. Cognates of *-mǣr-/*-mār- from *mērijaz include: the second part of given names like Sigmar, Dietmar, Ingemar, etc. See Old English mǣre.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Omer m

  1. a male given name

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish Ömer, ultimately from Arabic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒîʋojin/
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Proper noun

Omer m (Cyrillic spelling Омер)

  1. a male given name

Declension

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Further reading

  • “Omer”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2024
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