כדור

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See also: כ־ דור

Hebrew

Etymology

Root
כ־ד־ר (k-d-r)

Probably from דוּר (“circle”). Related to כדר (“to be round”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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כַּדּוּר • (kadúr) m (plural indefinite כַּדּוּרִים, singular construct כַּדּוּר־)

  1. A ball or orb or other spherical object.
    הילדים העבירו ביניהם את הכדור. ― hay'ladím he'evíru beinéhem et hakadúr. ― The children passed the ball to one another.
  2. (geometry) A ball: a three-dimensional solid enclosed by a sphere.
  3. (geometry, loosely) A sphere: a three-dimensional surface consisting of points equidistant from a center.
  4. (mathematics) A ball: the subset of a metric space that consists of all points within a certain distance from a given point.
  5. A bullet, a round.
    • רונה קינן, שיר נוצות
      אני רוצה להיות כרית נוצות שתספוג את הכדור במקומך
      I want to be the pin cushion that takes the bullet for you
    • כדור (תחמושת) on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he
  6. A pill: medicine to be swallowed.
    אני לוקח תשעה כדורים ביום כדי שלא לדבר תמיד על כמה אני רוצה להתנשק עם כל בחורי הישיבה.
    I take nine pills a day so I'm not always talking about how much I want to make out with all these yeshiva guys.

Usage notes

  • Historically, this noun was sometimes masculine, sometimes feminine. In Modern Hebrew it is exclusively masculine.

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References

  • Klein, Ernest (1987) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎, Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 270
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