אסתר

See also: אסתּר

Hebrew

Etymology

Said to be borrowed from Old Persian [script needed] (sitareh, “star”), from Proto-Iranian *Hstā́, or Akkadian Ištar (“Ishtar”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /esˈteʁ/
  • (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA(key): /esˈtejr/, [ˈestejr], [ˈestər]
  • (Sephardi Hebrew) IPA(key): /esˈt̪er/
  • (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA(key): /æsˈteːr/
  • Audio:(file)

Proper noun

אֶסְתֵּר • (estér) f

  1. Esther (a book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh)
  2. (biblical) Esther (the heroine of the Book of Esther)
    Synonym: מַלְכַּת אֶסְתֵּר (malkát 'estér)
  4. a female given name, equivalent to English Esther

Descendants

  • → Ancient Greek: Ἐσθήρ (Esthḗr)
    • → Old Armenian: Եսթեր (Estʻer)
      • → Armenian: Եսթեր (Estʻer) (learned)
    • → Latin: Esthēr (see there for further descendants)
    • → Russian: Есфи́рь (Jesfírʹ), Эсфи́рь (Esfírʹ)
  • → Yiddish: אסתּר (ester)

References

  1. ^ “Esther”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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