ספרייה

Hebrew

Root
ס־פ־ר‎ (s-p-r)

Etymology

־ִיָּה‎ (“a place for”) +‎ סֵפֶר‎ (“book”). Coined by Itamar Ben-Avi in the sense of bookstore.

Pronunciation

(Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /sifriˈja/, [sifʁiˈjä]
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Noun

ספרייה / סִפְרִיָּה • (sifriyá) f (plural indefinite סִפְרִיּוֹת‎, singular construct ספריית / סִפְרִיַּת־‎)

a library
‏יהודית אמרה לי שהגיעו לספרייה ספרים חדשים אתמול.‎‎
Yehudit told me the library got new books yesterday.

Declension

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References

Klein, Ernest (1987), “סִפְרִיָּה”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎, Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 465a

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