beemá

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Ladino[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Hebrew בְּהֵמָה (behemá).

Noun[edit]

beemá f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling בהמה)

  1. animal, beast
  2. head of cattle

Further reading[edit]

  • Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “beemá, bemá”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 85
  • Elli Kohen & Dahlia Kohen-Gordon (2000) “beemá”, in Ladino–English Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary, Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, page 63
  • Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “beħemá”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC