שמועה

Hebrew

Root
שׁ־מ־ע (š-m-ʿ)

Noun

שְׁמוּעָה • (shmuá) f (plural indefinite שְׁמוּעוֹת, singular construct שְׁמוּעַת־)

a rumor
(Biblical Hebrew) a report

Derived terms

שְׁמוּעָה רְחוֹקָה (shmuá rekhoká, “(Jewish law) belated news of someone's having died”)

Related terms

מַה נִּשְׁמַע? (má nishmá, “How are you?”)

Descendants

→ Yiddish: שמועס (shmues)
- → Dutch: smoes, smoezen
- → English: schmooze, shmooze
- → German: Schmu, Schmus, schmusen

References

H8052 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Further reading

שמועה on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he

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