ספריה

Hebrew

Etymology

Root
ס־פ־ר‎

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ספרייה \ סִפְרִיָּה • (sifriyá) f (plural indefinite סִפְרִיּוֹת‎)

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

Anagrams

ספירה

References

Klein, Ernest (1987) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎, Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 472

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