Definition of Hebraize. Meaning of Hebraize. Synonyms of Hebraize

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Definition of Hebraize

Hebraize
Hebraize He"bra*ize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hebraized; p. pr. & vb. n. Hebraizing.] To speak Hebrew, or to conform to the Hebrew idiom, or to Hebrew customs.

Meaning of Hebraize from wikipedia

- The Hebraization of surnames (also Hebraicization; Hebrew: עברות Ivrut) is the act of amending one's Jewish surname so that it originates from the Hebrew...
- Look up Hebraization in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hebraization may refer to: Hebraization of Palestinian place names Hebraization of surnames Hebraization...
- The Hebraization of English (or Hebraicization) is the use of the Hebrew alphabet to write English. Because Hebrew uses an abjad, it can render English...
- A 1992 study counted c. 2,780 historical locations whose names were Hebraized, including 340 villages and towns, 1,000 Khirbat (ruins), 560 wadis and...
- go the other way, that is from English to Hebrew, see Hebraization of English. Both Hebraization of English and Romanization of Hebrew are forms of transliteration...
- parents, Michael, an engineer, and Irit, a physical education teacher, hebraized their surname from "Greenstein" to "Gadot" before her birth. In Hebrew...
- the point of excess is permitted in the Talmud, Megilla 7b… pûrim is a hebraized form of a Babylonian word...Efforts to identify Purim with an earlier...
- worked towards "erasing all traces of its former owners". The project of "Hebraization" of the map, for which the JNF Naming Committee was established, aimed...
- writer. When Netanyahu's father immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, he hebraized his surname from "Mileikowsky" to "Netanyahu", meaning "God has given...
- diaspora, as well as cultural ****imilation and the recent trend toward Hebraization of surnames. Some traditional surnames relate to Jewish history or roles...