בחור

From בחר (“chose, select”), hence literally "chosen" or "selected".

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• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /baˈχuʁ/
• (Mizrahi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /baˈħur/
• (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔχər/

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בָּחוּר • (bakhúr) m (plural indefinite בַּחוּרִים, feminine counterpart בַּחוּרָה)

1. (Modern Israeli Hebrew) guy, boy
2. (Modern Israeli Hebrew) youth (countable), young man
3. (Jewish law) a young man over 13 who is required to perform mitzvoth but has never married

• נער
• עלם

• בחור ישיבה

• → English: bochur
• → Lithuanian: bachūras
• → Polish: bachor
• → Yiddish: בחור (bokher)
  • → Dutch: broger
  • → German: Bocher

• ילד (yéled)

• H970 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• "בחור" in the Noun Declension Tables of the Academy of Hebrew Language

• רחוב

From Hebrew בָּחוּר (bakhúr).

• (YIVO, Northeastern) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔχəʁ/
• (Mideastern) IPA^(key): /ˈbuχəʁ/

בחור • (bokher) m, plural בחורים (bokherem), diminutive בחורל (bokherl)

1. young man, youngster; bachelor

• (young man): יונגער־מאַן (yunger-man)

• בחורווײַז (bokhervayz)
• ישיבֿה־בחור (yeshive-bokher)

• → Dutch: broger
• → German: Bocher