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Timshel
Hi!
I need help from someone who speaks Hebrew.
I would like to tattoo the word "timshel" for my 25th birthday (the story of this word comes from the novel "East of Eden"). Is this spelling good: תִּמְשָׁל ? Is it really means "thou mayest"? How it looks in Hebrew?
I would be very grateful for any help :)
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Kamila
September 29, 2017
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Re: meaning of this word ?
Hi Sara,
I’ve only read English translations of Persian poems, and only those by the two poets whom you had recommended. (Molānā is better known by the name Rūmī in English.) Since I haven’t studied Persian, I can’t fully appreciate their brilliance.
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Chris
September 15, 2017
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Re:Re: meaning of this word ?
Hi,Chris
yes this book is poetic.
and translating poem is so difficult.
have you ever read persian poems?i recommand you read Molana or Khayam.their poems are so wonderful
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sara ..
September 14, 2017
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Re: meaning of this word ?
Hi Sara,
some authors have a more “poetic” style than others. If this book was written in such a style, then the interpretation can vary for each reader.
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Chris
September 13, 2017
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Re:Re: meaning of this word ?
Hi Chris,
i really confused.i think this Maud Marta is a difficult book even for native!
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sara ..
September 10, 2017
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sara ..
September 10, 2017
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Re: meaning of this word ?
Hi Sara,
the verb “blow” has many possible meanings. One of its meanings is “to make a sound as a result of being blown”, e.g. “The ships’ horns blew in the harbor”, but that meaning isn’t often used about children. In my view, the more likely meaning is “to be propelled by an air current”, since the same meaning also applies to “Past the tiny lives the children blew” — blowing past something strongly suggests being propelled by the wind, like fallen leaves in the autumn.
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Chris
September 2, 2017
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sara ..
September 1, 2017
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Re: meaning of this word ?
Hi Sara,
the part of the story that you had quoted said that the wind blew the children rather than just their clothes, and that the bits were carried by the stems rather than merely mixed with them. Unless some other part of the story gives more details of that scene, I don’t understand the basis of your teacher’s interpretation of the bits as clothes and the stems as stalks.
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Chris
August 31, 2017
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sara ..
August 29, 2017
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