סהר

Form of שַׂהַר (sáhar, śáhar, “moon”). Compare Aramaic סהרא (sahrā, “moon”), Arabic شَهْر (šahr, “month, new moon”), Old South Arabian 𐩦𐩠𐩧 (s²hr, “beginning of the lunar month”), Ge'ez ሣህር (śahr, “moon, first day of the month”).

• שַׂהַר

• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.harˤ/ [ˈsaː.haʀ]
• (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.haʁ/
• (Mizrahi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.har/
• (Sephardi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈsä.häɾ/, (Greek and Turkish) [ˈsä.äɾ]
• (Italian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ar/
• (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈsæ.hær/ [ˈsæ(ː).hæ(ː)r]
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.haʁ/ [ˈsä.äʁ̞], [sä(ː)ʁ̞]

סַהַר • (sáhar) m (plural indefinite סְהָרִים, singular construct סַהַר־, plural construct סַהֲרֵי־) [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. (Modern Israeli Hebrew) crescent

   הַכּוֹכָב וְהַסַּהַר הָיוּ הַסְּמָלִים בְּדֶגֶל הָאִימְפֶּרְיָה הָעוֹתְ׳מָאנִית.

   hakokháv v'hasáhar hayú has'malím b'dégel ha'impérya ha'oth'mánit.

   The star and crescent were the symbols on the flag of the Ottoman Empire.

2. moon

   Synonyms: יָרֵחַ, לְבָנָה

3. (Biblical Hebrew, hapax legomenon) roundness, round object
   • Tanach, Song of Songs 7:3:

     שׇׁרְרֵךְ אַגַּן הַסַּהַר אַל־יֶחְסַר הַמָּזֶג בִּטְנֵךְ עֲרֵמַת חִטִּים סוּגָה בַּשּׁוֹשַׁנִּים׃

     Your navel is like a round goblet—
     Let mixed wine not be lacking!—
     Your belly like a heap of wheat
     Hedged about with lilies.

4. enclosure for cattle, sheepfold

   Synonyms: גְּדֵרָה, דִּיר, מִכְלָא

סַהַר • (sáhar) m or f

1. a unisex given name, Sahar

• “סהר” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
• "סהר" in the Noun Declension Tables of the Academy of Hebrew Language
• סהר - האקדמיה ללשון העברית
• H5469 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987), “סַהַר”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 436
• Leslau, Wolf (1987), “śāhr”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, reprinted 1991, 1997 and 2006

• סהר on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he

Probably related to סַהַר (sáhar, “round object”), whence literally, “a round enclosure”.

סֹהַר • (sóhar) m (no plural forms, no construct forms) [pattern: קֹטֶל]

1. Defective spelling of סוהר

• “סהר” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
• סהר - האקדמיה ללשון העברית
• H5470 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987), “סְֹהַר”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[2], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 436