נישה

Ultimately borrowed from French niche, from Old French niche, from nicher (“make a nest”) (modern French nicher), from Latin nīdus (“nest”).

נִישָׁה • (nísha) f (plural indefinite נִישׁוֹת, singular construct נִישַׁת־, plural construct נִישׁוֹת־)

1. a niche (cavity, hollow, or recess)
2. (by extension, ecology, economics) a niche (a position in an ecological system or market for which one is especially suited)

Causative of נָשָׁה (nashá, “to forget”), cognate with Arabic نَسَّى (nassā, “to cause to forget”).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /niˈʃa/

נישה / נִשָּׁה • (nishá) (pi'el construction)

1. to cause to forget, make forget
   • Tanach, Genesis 41:51, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     וַיִּקְרָא יוֹסֵף אֶת־שֵׁם הַבְּכוֹר מְנַשֶּׁה כִּי־נַשַּׁנִי אֱלֹהִים אֶת־כׇּל־עֲמָלִי וְאֵת כׇּל־בֵּית אָבִי׃

     And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: ‘for God hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.’

This is the only instance in the Tanach where a pi'el verb occurs with an apparently unchanged vowel in the first syllable, i.e. the original /a/ is kept and not as always changed to /i/ (cf. form II of verbs in Arabic). The reason for that is to create more phonetic similarity with the preceding word מְנַשֶּׁה.^[1]

• H5382 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987) “נשׁה”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 428b

• שינה, שניה