Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective
A blog about the origin of Hebrew words and phrases and how they relate to English and other languages.
- By David Curwin
- Based in Israel
- Roughly 18 posts per year
- First post on
Posts per year
| Year starting | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 23 |
| 2023 | 21 |
| 2024 | 19 |
| 2025 | 0 |
Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.
Most recent posts
Let's look at two Hebrew words for clown - לֵיצָן leitzan and מוּקְיוֹן mukion. Leitzan is the more common of the two, so we'll start by examining it. It first appears in Rabbinic Hebrew, meaning …
A reader asked about an Israeli grape juice called Inbalim ענבלים. I presume this is the brand:He asked why the juice had that name. I don't have an actual answer to that question. It's a …
The Hebrew month of Elul אֱלוּל begins this week, so let's look at its etymology. As with the other names of the months in the current Hebrew calendar, it was adopted in Babylonia, and therefore …