Moon in Other Languages:
Why "Chodesh" is NOT the word for New Moon
by MBPSTB
Intercalary Sabbath
19 December, 2015
Variations on Yareah
The moon has almost as many names in Hebrew as it has phases. To begin with, the Hebrew words (hodesh), month, and (hadash), new, are etymologically related for obvious reasons; the moon completes its orbit around the earth in one month, returning to its former "new moon" state. Interestingly – or perhaps obviously – an alternative Hebrew word for month is (yerah), lit., moon.
The moon is commonly referred to as (levanah) in classic and modern Hebrew literature and liturgy: (lavan) is the Hebrew word for white. The prophet Isaiah spoke of the day when (ve-hafra ha-levanah u'vosha ha-hama), "the moon shall be ashamed, and the sun shall be abashed.[1]
Another less-known name is (sahar), related to the Aramaic and Arabic words for moon (sahara and shahr, respectively). A full moon is referred to poetically as (agan-hasahar), the moon-basin,[2] and a moon crescent as (hazi-sahar), lit., half a moon.
The blessing for the sanctification of the moon is known as (kiddush levanah) or (birkat ha-levanah). Letters appearing in large print are referred to in Hebrew as (otiot shel kiddush levanah), letters for sanctifying the (levanah), the new moon; this is because the blessing is recited outdoors by moonlight, necessitating large print on this particular page in the prayerbook.
The most common name, (yareh-ah), is related to the ancient Akkadian, Aramaic and Ugaritic words for "month" – the amount of time it takes for the moon to orbit the earth, or as the ancients viewed it – to return to its previous shape. This usage is found in Exodus: "A certain man of the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw how beautiful he was, she hid him for three months [yerakhim]"[3]. Similarly, in the book of Kings it is written: "Shallum son of Jabesh became king in the thirty-ninth year of King Uzziah of Judah, and he reigned in Samaria one month [yerakh].[4]
There is clearly a relationship between the ancient word for month, and the ancient Semites' male moon-deity – known as Sin among the eastern Semites, but as Erah or Yerah in the western regions of Mesopotamia.
Several modern Hebrew words are based on the wod (yare'ah), moon. A small moon, that orbits the planets, is known as (yerei'hon), on being a Hebrew suffix that creates the diminutive form. A magazine or journal which is published monthly is know as a (yarhon).
Exodus 2:1-2 (va-tizpenehu shlosha yerahim), she hid him for three months
http://jhom.com/topics/moon/hebrew.html
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'Moon' :
- largest natural satellite of planet Earth :
- - Syriac Aramaic : ܝܪܚܐ ("yarħā’ ")
- - Hebrew Aramaic : ירחא ("yarħā’ ")
- - Hebrew : ירח ("yare'aĥ", "yaréakh"), לבנה ("l'vaná"), לווין ("lawian")
- in the sense of 'month' :
- - Syriac Aramaic : ܝܪܚܐ ("yarħā’ ")
- - Hebrew Aramaic : ירחא ("yarħā’ ")
- - Hebrew : חוֹדֶש ("ĥodesh"), יֶרַח ("yeraĥ")
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'Night' :
Hebrew Aramaic : לליא ("lilyā’ ")
- Syriac Aramaic : ܠܠܝܐ ("lilyā’ ")
- Hebrew: לילה ("lailah"), לַיִל ("láyil")
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In Spanish -
Moon = la luna
Full Moon = luna llena
New Moon = Luna Nueva
Quarter Moon = Luna de quarto
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http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-french/moon
In French -
Moon = Lune
Crescent Moon = croissant de lune
Full Moon = pleine lune
half moon = demi-lune
New Moon = nouvelle lune
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http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-italian/moon
In Italian -
Moon = luna
full moon = luna piena
half moon = mezzaluna
new moon = luna nuova
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