תורה

Representing a *tawrawat- prefixed from Proto-West Semitic *waraw- (“to throw, cast, lead, guide”).^[1] Compare Aramaic אוֹרַיְתָא (ʾōrayṯā), Ge'ez ኦሪት (ʾorit).

• (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /toːˈraː/
• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /toːˈrɔː/ [tʰoːˈʀɔː]
• (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /tøˈrɔ/ [tʰøːˈrɔː], [tʰeːˈrɔː]
• (Sephardi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /toˈra/
• (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /towˈrɔ/, /tojˈrɔ/
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /toˈʁa/

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תּוֹרָה • (torá) f (plural indefinite תּוֹרוֹת, singular construct תּוֹרַת־, plural construct תּוֹרוֹת־) [pattern: תַּקְטָלָה]

1. instruction, teaching
2. Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures, traditionally attributed to Moses and therefore also known as the Five Books of Moses). Also known as the Law, the Pentateuch.
   • Tanach, Joshua 1:7, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     רַק חֲזַק וֶאֱמַץ מְאֹד לִשְׁמֹר לַעֲשׂוֹת כְּכָל הַתּוֹרָה אֲשֶׁר צִוְּךָ מֹשֶׁה עַבְדִּי אַל תָּסוּר מִמֶּנּוּ יָמִין וּשְׂמֹאול לְמַעַן תַּשְׂכִּיל בְּכֹל אֲשֶׁר תֵּלֵךְ׃

     Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses My servant commanded thee; turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest have good success whithersoever thou goest.

3. (Judaism) the Written Torah and Oral Torah; the Tanakh and Talmud
   • Tanach, Proverbs 31:26:

     פִּיהָ פָּתְחָה בְחׇכְמָה וְתוֹרַת חֶסֶד עַל לְשׁוֹנָהּ׃

     She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.

4. theory

   תורת הקבוצות ― torát hak'vutsót ― set theory

   תורת היחסות ― torát hayakhasút ― the theory of relativity

   תורות הגזע ― torót hagéza ― racial theories

• → Arabic: التَّوْرَاة (at-tawrāh)
• → Catalan: Torà
• → Chinese: 妥拉 (Tuǒlā)
• → Czech: Tóra
• → Dutch: Thora, Tora, Torah
• → English: Torah
• → Esperanto: Torao
• → French: Thora
• → German: Thora
• → Hungarian: Tóra
• → Interlingua: Torah
• → Italian: Torà
• → Ladino: תורה, tora
• → Polish: Tora
• → Portuguese: Torá
• → Spanish: Torá
• → Yiddish: תּורה (toyre)

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From Hebrew תורה (torá).

תורה (Latin spelling tora)

1. (Judaism) Torah

Borrowed from Hebrew תּוֹרָה (tōrā).

תורה • (torâ)

1. (Judeo-Persian) the Torah
   • 1600s, Elisha ben Shmūel, translated by Dalia Yasharpour, The Prince and the Sufi: The Judeo-Persian Rendition of the Buddha Biographies, Brill, published November 9, 2020:

     וֿלי כֿייר וצוֿאב ועלם תורה‬
     ‮רוֿד המראה וֿיי תא נזד יך תא

     vali xeyr o savâb o elm-e torâ
     ravad hamrâh-e vey tâ nazd-e yek tâ

     But kindness, good deeds and the knowledge of the Torah
     Will accompany him all the way to God.