עלה

From Proto-Semitic *ʿall-, *ʿaly- (“high; height, elevation”), from Proto-Afro-Asiatic *ʿal-, *ʿVl(ay)- (“to be high, tall; to rise; mountain”).

Related to Arabic عَلِيّ‎ (ʿaliyy, “to be high, exalted”) and Arabic عُلًى‎ (ʿulan, “to climb”).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)aˈla/

עָלָה • (alá) (pa'al construction)

1. To ascend, rise, go up; to move from a point to a higher point.

   ‏אני לא האדם החכם בעולם אבל אפילו אני יודע שהשמש עולה במזרח.‎‎

   aní lo ha'adám hakhakhám ba'olám avál afilú aní yodéa shehashémesh olá bamizrákh.

   I'm not the smartest man in the world but even I know the sun rises in the east.

2. To cost.

   ‏אני מקווה שזה לא יעלה הרבה.‎‎

   aní m'kavé shezé lo ya'alé harbé.

   I hope this won't cost a lot.

3. To grow.
4. To rise in standing; to progress in a social or other figurative ladder.

   ‏קליבלנד עלתה לגמר ה-NBA.‏‎‎ ― klívland altá ligmár ha'én-bí-éi. ― Cleveland has advanced to the NBA Finals.

5. To develop.
6. To mount (a horse), to board (a plane), to enter (a street via a junction), etc.
7. (of a Jew) To make aliyah, to immigrate to Israel.

   ‏הרבה יהודים מצרפת עלו ארצה השנה.‎‎

   harbé yehudiyím metsarfat alu 'ártsá hashaná.

   Many Jews from France have made aliyah to Israel [literally towards the land] this year.

8. To come, appear, show up, arrive.
9. Synonym of עלה לרגל‎ (make pilgrimage, visit a holy site)
10. To depart for battle.

• H5927 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)aˈle/

עָלֶה • (alé) m (plural indefinite עָלִים‎, singular construct עֲלֵה־)

1. A leaf.

• עלה‎ on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he