משפחה
See also: משפּחה
Hebrew
Etymology
Perhaps related to שִׁפְחָה (shifkhá, “female slave”).
Pronunciation
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /miʃpaˈχa/
Audio: (file)
Noun
מִשְׁפָּחָה • (mishpakhá) f (plural indefinite מִשְׁפָּחוֹת, singular construct מִשְׁפַּחַת־) [pattern: מִקְטָלָה]
- family (a group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family)
- (biology, taxonomy) family (a category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank)
Declension
| isolated forms | with possessive pronouns | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number: | State: | form | Person: | singular | plural | ||
| m | f | m | f | ||||
| singular | indefinite | מִשְׁפָּחָה | first | מִשְׁפַּחְתִּי | מִשְׁפַּחְתֵּנוּ | ||
| definite | הַמִּשְׁפָּחָה | second | מִשְׁפַּחְתְּךָ | מִשְׁפַּחְתֵּךְ | מִשְׁפַּחְתְּכֶם | מִשְׁפַּחְתְּכֶן | |
| construct | מִשְׁפַּחַת־ | third | מִשְׁפַּחְתּוֹ | מִשְׁפַּחְתָּהּ | מִשְׁפַּחְתָּם | מִשְׁפַּחְתָּן | |
| plural | indefinite | מִשְׁפָּחוֹת | first | משפחותיי / מִשְׁפְּחוֹתַי | מִשְׁפְּחוֹתֵינוּ | ||
| definite | הַמִּשְׁפָּחוֹת | second | מִשְׁפְּחוֹתֶיךָ | משפחותייך / מִשְׁפְּחוֹתַיִךְ | מִשְׁפְּחוֹתֵיכֶם | מִשְׁפְּחוֹתֵיכֶן | |
| construct | מִשְׁפְּחוֹת־ | third | מִשְׁפְּחוֹתָיו | מִשְׁפְּחוֹתֶיהָ | מִשְׁפְּחוֹתָם | מִשְׁפְּחוֹתָן | |
Derived terms
- בֶּן מִשְׁפָּחָה (ben mishpakhá)
- מִשְׁפַּחְתִּי (mishpakhtí)
- שֵׁם מִשְׁפָּחָה (shém mishpakhá)
Descendants
- → Yiddish: משפּחה (mishpokhe), מישפּאָכע (mishpokhe) — Soviet phonetic spelling
- → Dutch: misjpooche
- → German: Mischpoche, Mischpoke
- → Hungarian: mispóche
References
Further reading
- משפחה on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he
Yiddish
Noun
משפחה • (mishpokhe) f
- (nonstandard) Unpointed form of משפּחה (mishpokhe).