Omer
English
editEtymology 1
editVariant of omer
Noun
editOmer (uncountable)
- (Judaism, usually with 'the') The 49-day period from the second day of Passover to Shavuot, begun and ended with an offering of a sheaf of barley and noted nightly during evening prayer.
- The counting of the Omer — the Sefiras HaOmer — is a mitzvah.
- (Judaism) Alternative form of omer: the sheaf of barley offered on the second day of Passover.
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editPossibly from the Hebrew verb אמר (“to say, to tell”), itself cognate with Arabic أَمَرَ (ʔamara, “to command”).
Proper noun
editOmer
- (biblical) A masculine name included within a Biblical genealogy as a descendant of Esau at Genesis 36:11.
Anagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editUltimately from Frankish *Audamār, which consists of Proto-Germanic *audaz (“wealth, riches”) and *mēraz (“famous”). Cognates include Czech and German Otmar.
Cognates of *ōd- from *audaz include the first part of the given names Otto, Edward and Edmund. See also Old English ēad. Cognates of *-mǣr-/*-mār- from *mērijaz include: the second part of given names like Sigmar, Dietmar, Ingemar, etc. See Old English mǣre.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editOmer m
- a male given name
Related terms
editSerbo-Croatian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Turkish Ömer, ultimately from Arabic.
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
editOmer m (Cyrillic spelling Омер)
- a male given name
Declension
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Further reading
edit- “Omer”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2024
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