Abbreviations List - רשימת קיצורים

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Re: Abbreviations List - רשימת קיצורים

Postby Javier » 2010-10-15, 20:29

Hi everyone ! Question: what is the full form of בע"מ ? I think it means something like Ltd. Thanks.
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Re: Abbreviations List - רשימת קיצורים

Postby Babelfish » 2010-10-17, 20:56

Indeed, it is an acronym of בערבון מוגבל = with limited guarantee.

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Re: Abbreviations List - רשימת קיצורים

Postby KonoMichi » 2011-08-30, 20:26

נ"ב (Nun Bet) - Notabene, נזכרתי בדבר.
The Hebrew form for "P.S"
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Postby I am squirrel » 2012-11-16, 16:20

I saw a list of abbreviations on Wikipedia.. does it get confusing when say, there are multiple meanings for one abbreviation? Sometimes this happens in English, but I never really have misunderstandings.

My other question was about how they are pronounced. Are they treated like words? or how would you pronounce them? I always get confused.

for example. in English, we have USA and we would say just the three letters. But, would ארה"ב be prounced like a word? like you would say צה"ל? Because I know in some instances, like ד"ר its still pronounced like Doctor and not Dar. right? or am I totally off the mark on this one? How do you know when to do what?
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Re: Abbreviations List - רשימת קיצורים

Postby Baldanders » 2012-11-19, 15:57

- Probably,only that I can't think of any that do.
- They often do,other times they are only abbreviated in writing but read in full[set phrases and prepositions almost always],they are rarely ever pronounced by the names of the letters they consist of[only several few military terms come to mind].

As in English,if the abbreviated form constitutes a pronounceable word,then it is indeed likely to become a word by itself.

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Re: Abbreviations List - רשימת קיצורים

Postby AlanF_US » 2012-12-02, 20:37

How is the word סכו״ם pronounced? Also, is there a more formal way to say "cutlery"? I've seen כלי כסף but perhaps that's only for utensils that are actually made of silver (even though the analogous English term "silverware" can refer to utensils made of stainless steel, etc.).

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Re: Abbreviations List - רשימת קיצורים

Postby AlanF_US » 2012-12-02, 20:40

KonoMichi wrote:נ"ב (Nun Bet) - Notabene, נזכרתי בדבר.
The Hebrew form for "P.S"


I would argue that "nota bene" (abbreviated "N.B.") and "postscript" (abbreviated "P.S.") mean different things:

"nota bene" = "note this well" (pay attention to what I'm going to say next)
"postscript" = "here's something that I thought of after I wrote the main letter, or that didn't fit there"

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Postby Babelfish » 2012-12-07, 15:57

סכו"ם is pronounced "sakum".
I don't know of any other translation for "cutlery" (and neither does Morfix) and I haven't heard כלי כסף used, except maybe in books describing older periods when indeed they were made of silver...

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Re: Abbreviations List - רשימת קיצורים

Postby stevenjklein » 2013-10-24, 22:25

What does ש.ב. (shin bet) mean?

Yes, I know it can be a reference to the internal security service, but is there another meaning?

The context: I'm learning Hebrew using various tools, including an Israeli textbook called עברית מבראשית. It's a bit tricky because the instructions themselves are in Hebrew!

Anyway, on one of the pages, below one of the exercises, is this:
ש.ב. ללמוד בע"פ את הדיאלוג. להמשיך בכתב את הדיאלוג

I understand the rest of that sentence, but what does the shin bet mean? is it even an abbreviation? I note that they use periods, not the " mark.

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Re: Abbreviations List - רשימת קיצורים

Postby Babelfish » 2013-10-25, 15:51

ש"ב is שיעורי בית = homework :)

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Re: Abbreviations List - רשימת קיצורים

Postby stevenjklein » 2013-10-25, 18:33

Thanks for that explanation.

A follow-up question:

Is there any important distinction between an abbreviation with periods and one with a double-quote mark? Or is ש.ב. the same as ש"ב?

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Re: Abbreviations List - רשימת קיצורים

Postby Babelfish » 2013-11-01, 15:04

AFAIK there's no distinction in meaning. The abbreviation with double-quote is the proper form, though; the one with periods seems to me like a copy from English.

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Re: Abbreviations List - רשימת קיצורים

Postby caleteu » 2018-05-28, 19:24

This list is a wonderful idea, but it would be easier to use if it were alphabetised.
In the meantime, what do I do with "תרגיל על שלמים ול"ה"?
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Re: Abbreviations List - רשימת קיצורים

Postby Baldanders » 2018-05-30, 15:03

ל"ה is a category of verbs (gizra) that have ה or י as the third radical of the root.

Read more here:
https://he.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D ... 9%22%D7%94

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Re: Abbreviations List - רשימת קיצורים

Postby caleteu » 2018-06-04, 5:04

Golv wrote:ל"ה is a category of verbs (gizra) that have ה or י as the third radical of the root.


AARGH! I should have recognised that. The exercise is about strong verbs and Lamed-He verbs.
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Re: Abbreviations List - רשימת קיצורים

Postby caleteu » 2018-10-01, 6:08

I found this in a poem by Y. Amichai What does שמת תשכ"ח mean?
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Re: Abbreviations List - רשימת קיצורים

Postby Baldanders » 2018-10-01, 12:51

I think you meant שנת [ה]תשכ"ח, which is not an acronym, but a number in alphabetic numerals that denotes the year 5728 in Jewish counting (for the next 20 years, the תש at the beginning would be a good hint to tell those apart from actual acronyms).

My first thought was it could be a pun using the root ש-כ-ח, but then I checked and found it corresponds to the year 1967, which wasn't a very forgettable year in Israeli history, so probably, and regrettably, no pun.

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Re: Abbreviations List - רשימת קיצורים

Postby caleteu » 2018-10-01, 13:33

תודהThat would fit the context.
Numbers have never been my thing ... But what confused me was that the "word" was vocalised. Maybe it does intend to pun.
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Re: Abbreviations List - רשימת קיצורים

Postby Baldanders » 2018-10-01, 15:03

We do often treat those as words or names and vocalize them in speech (for instance, the current year, תשע"ט, would be read as tash'at, not 5779), although spelling out each letter separately is also an option.

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Re: Abbreviations List - רשימת קיצורים

Postby Drink » 2018-10-03, 20:22

If you could tell us which poem it was, we'd be able to help you more easily.
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