אסתר

See also: אסתּר

Hebrew

Etymology

Said to be borrowed from Old Persian [script needed] (sitareh, “star”), from Proto-Iranian *Hstā́, or Akkadian Ištar (“Ishtar”).[1]

Pronunciation

(Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /esˈteʁ/
(Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /esˈtejr/, [ˈestejr], [ˈestər]
(Sephardi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /esˈt̪er/
(Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /æsˈteːr/
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Proper noun

אֶסְתֵּר • (estér) f

Esther (Biblical character)
a female given name, equivalent to English Esther

References

“Esther”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

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