חרס

Hebrew

Etymology

From Hittite 𒂁 (ḫarši-, “a kind of rough pottery vessel”); in the Tanakhic passages it does not mean the material itself, but only a kind of vessel, which apparently derives from Asia Minor with the borrowing. Other Semitic languages have instead of this word a phono-semantic matching, under which are Classical Syriac ܚܶܙܦܳܐ‎ (ḵezəpā), Classical Syriac ܚܶܨܦܳܐ‎ (ḵeṣəpā, “piece of pottery”), whence Arabic خَزَف‎ (ḵazaf), and Ge'ez ጻሕብ (ṣaḥb), ጻኅብ (ṣaḫb, “earthen vessel”).

Noun

חֶרֶס • (khéres) m [pattern: קֶטֶל]

pottery, earthenware; clay, ceramics
(biblical) the sun

References

Rabin, Chaim (1963), “Hittite Words in Hebrew”, in Orientalia, volume 32, issue 2, DOI:10.2307/43073741, pages 118–120

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