קומי

From German komisch, itself derived from Latin comicus and Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈkomi/ [ˈko̞.mi]

קוֹמִי • (kómi) (feminine קוֹמִית, masculine plural קוֹמִים, feminine plural קוֹמִיּוֹת)

1. comic, comedic, comical (relating to comedy).
2. comical, ridiculous, absurd, pathetic

   Synonyms: מַצְחִיק, מְגֻחָךְ / מגוחך

   אֲנִי נִמְצָא כָּרֶגַע בְּמַצָּב מְאוֹד קוֹמִי

   aní nimtsá karéga b'matsáv m'ód kómi

   I am currently in a very comical situation

• Klein, Ernest (1987), A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 567

Derived from Ancient Greek κόμη (kómē, “hair of the head”), which is of uncertain origin.

• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /qoˈme/ [qoːˈmeː]
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /koˈme/ [ko̞ˈme̞], [ko̞ˈme̞j]

קוֹמֵי • (komé) m (no plural forms)

1. (uncountable, obsolete) hair, hairstyle
2. (historical) A specific Hellenistic or Roman hairstyle.
   • a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud. Bava Kamma, section 83.1:

     הַמְסַפֵּר קוֹמֵי – הֲרֵי זֶה מִדַּרְכֵי הָאֱמוֹרִי.

     [One who] cuts [his hair in the fashion of] komé, this is "the ways of the Emorites".

Could be alternatively vocalized as קוֹמִי (komí).

• Klein, Ernest (1987), A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[2], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 567
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903), A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[3], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons

From Russian Ко́ми (Kómi), ultimately from Komi-Zyrian коми (komi).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈkomi/ [ˈko̞.mi]

קוֹמִי • (kómi)

1. Komi (a Finno-Ugric language currently spoken by 200,000 to 400,000 people, depending on source and definition of "speaker", in northeastern European part of Russia)
2. Komi (a republic of Russia)

• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈqumi/ [ˈquː.miː]
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈkumi/ [ˈku.mi]

קוּמִי • (kúmi)

1. Feminine singular imperative of קָם (kám)