שורש

From Proto-Semitic *šurš-.

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈʃoʁeʃ/
• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): [ˈʃoː.ʀ̟ɛʃ]

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שורש / שֹׁרֶשׁ • (šóreš) m (plural indefinite שורשים / שָׁרָשִׁים‎ or שורשים / שֳׁרָשִׁים‎, singular construct שורש / שֹׁרֶשׁ־‎) [pattern: קֹטֶל]

1. (botany) root (of a plant)
2. (by extension) root (i.e. source, basis)
3. (by extension, linguistics) root (e.g., a triliteral root) of a Semitic word
4. (by extension, mathematics) root (e.g., square root)

שורש / שֹׁרַשׁ • (šoráš) third-singular masculine past (pu'al construction, active counterpart שירש / שֵׁרֵשׁ‎)

1. to be rooted out
   • Tanach, Job 31:8, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     ‏אֶזְרְעָה וְאַחֵר יֹאכֵל וְצֶאֱצָאַי יְשֹׁרָשׁוּ׃‎‎

     'ezr'á v'akhér yokhél v'tse'etsa'ái y'shoráshu.
     ʾezrəʿā wəʾaḥēr yōḵēl wəṣeʾĕṣāʾay yəšōrā́šū.

     Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

• שורשי / שָׁרְשִׁי‎ (shor'shí)

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From Hebrew שורש / שֹׁרֶשׁ‎.

שורש • (shoyresh) m, plural שורשים‎ (shorashem)

1. (linguistics) Semitic root

• וואָרצל‎ (vortsl)