Tzere
Hebrew niqqud vowel sign / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Zeire" redirects here. Not to be confused with Zaire.
"Zere" redirects here. For people named Zere, see Zere (name).
Tzere (also spelled Tsere, Tzeirei, Zere, Zeire, Ṣērê; modern Hebrew: צֵירֵי, IPA: [tseˈʁe], sometimes also written צירה; formerly צֵרֵי ṣērê) is a Hebrew niqqud vowel sign represented by two horizontally-aligned dots "◌ֵ" underneath a letter. In modern Hebrew, tzere is pronounced the same as segol and indicates the phoneme /e/, which is the same as the "e" sound in the vowel segol and is transliterated as an "e". There was a distinction in Tiberian Hebrew between segol and Tzere.
Tzere | |
ֵ | |
IPA | e, ɛ |
Transliteration | e |
English example | ⦁ bed ⦁ (Scottish) bay |
Same sound | segol |
Example | |
תֵּל | |
The word for mound in Hebrew, tel. The only vowel (under Tav, the two dots horizontally) is the Tzere itself. | |
Other Niqqud | |
Shva · Hiriq · Tzere · Segol · Patach · Kamatz · Holam · Dagesh · Mappiq · Shuruk · Kubutz · Rafe · Sin/Shin Dot |