אשר

Hebrew

Etymology 1

From Proto-Semitic *ʔaṯar-. Cognate to Arabic أَثَر (ʔaṯar, “trace, vestige, impression, relic”) and Ge'ez አሰር (ʾäsär), አሠር (ʾäśär, “trace, vestige; way, road; relic”), more closely Aramaic אַתְרָא / ܐܰܬܪܳܐ (ʾaṯrā), absolute state אֲתַר (ʾăṯar), אָתַר (ʾaṯar) / ܐܰܬܰܪ (ʾaṯar, “spot, place”), doublet of אֲתָר (ʾăṯār, “spot, place”) borrowed from it,[1] related also to the verb אָשַׁר (ʾāšár, “to go straight on, to make progress”).[2]

Pronunciation

Conjunction

אֲשֶׁר • (ashér)

  1. A relativizer, used to introduce a relative clause
    זֹאת הַמְּצִיאוּת בָּהּ הוּא חַי
    Zot ha-metsi'út bah hu khay
    This is the reality in which he lives.
Usage notes
  • This conjunction is somewhat archaic and formal, compared to שֶׁ־ (she-).
  • אֲשֶׁר as a conjunction is a relativizer. It functions somewhat like a relative pronoun, but a resumptive pronoun usually remains inside the relative clause (especially when the object of a preposition).
Derived terms

Pronoun

אֲשֶׁר • (ashér)

  1. That, which, who, whom; a relative pronoun, used to introduce a relative clause.
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Usage notes
  • This pronoun is somewhat archaic and formal, compared to שֶׁ־ (she-).
  • As noted above, אֲשֶׁר serves in some cases as a conjunction rather than as a pronoun.

Etymology 2

Root
א־שׁ־ר (ʾ-sh-r)
7 terms

Pronunciation

Proper noun

אָשֵׁר • (ashér) m

  1. (biblical) Asher (the eighth son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah)
  2. a male given name

Etymology 3

Noun

אֹשֶׁר • ('ósher) m

  1. defective spelling of אושר

Etymology 4

Verb

אִשֵּׁר • (ishér) (pi'el construction)

  1. defective spelling of אישר

Verb

אֻשַּׁר • (ushár) (pu'al construction)

  1. defective spelling of אושר

References

  1. ^ Nöldeke, Theodor (1895) “Über einen arabischen Dialect”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes‎[1] (in German), volume 9, page 11 footnote 1
  2. ^ Dillmann, August (1865) “አሠር”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 739

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