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eagle (masc.) הנשר יפֶה
הברווז יפֶה duck (masc.)
הציפור יפָה bird (fem.)
Thanks. I ll correct. I am just trying to find some hidden inner logic concerning bird genders... :D
Perhaps נשר (or עיט ayit) is male and ציפור is female because eagles are larger and more aggressive than most birds, although I don't want to be accused of gender-stereotyping so I'll just say it's the way it is just because.
And a female duck is a ברווזה, so they sometimes have both genders.
בת יענה היא דורס לילי במקרא. לא ידוע באיזה בעל חיים מדובר ספציפית. יש כאלה בימינו שחושבים שבת יענה ויען הם אותה חיה, אבל זה לא היה נכון במקור.
Providing a translation for beginners since Google Translate performs hilariously poorly for this paragraph. Bat ya'ane is a nocturnal bird of prey in the Bible. It is unknown which animal is being referred to specifically. Some people nowadays think that bat-ya'ane and ya'en are the same animal, but this wasn't originally the case.
על סמך מה יען היא נקבה? בויקיפדיה: "היען (שם מדעי: Struthio camelus; נקרא בטעות גם בת יענה) הוא העוף הגדול ביותר שחי כיום על פני כדור הארץ. הוא מין יחיד בסוגו ובמשפחת היעניים. אורך גופו של היען הוא כשני מטרים, וגובהו עד 2.5 מטרים. היען הוא המהיר ביותר מבין כל בעלי החיים ההולכים על שתיים (כ-65 קמ"ש)."
My first attempt at contradicting this hypothesis was a failure, so I'll try the other way: דרור, פשוש.
predatory and aggressive aren't the same thing :) Not sure why so many confuse the two. Is a human being aggressive when he eats a steak? Is hunting an aggressive act? Points to ponder.
What kind of bird is it? An eagle or a vulture? Wiktionary translates it as "vulture" https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/נשר
Hmm, there's quite a lot of confusion between these words. And it's been this way since the times of the Bible. They're kind of interchangeable for the average Joe.
Technically, נשר is vulture, and עיט is eagle. However, for example, Yekhezkel (Ezekiel) refers to נשר and then describes essentially an eagle. I will discuss with the team if we want to adjust the course so that this principally means "vulture" (with "eagle" as a possible answer).
1949
Eagle for נשר is simply incorrect in modern Hebrew. Many native speakers confuse them, but unlike in certain other cases, neither the Academy nor leading dictionaries (AFAIK) added the eagle definition.
הנשר יפה - the vulture is pretty הנשר היפה - the pretty vulture Am I Correct?
- 1949
Actual eagle is עיט and vulture is נשר. But colloquially they are often confused.
And another part because the cultural connotaions of "vulture" in English (sometimes negative) are more like those for עיט in Hebrew culture, and for "egale" (strong, beautiful) like those for נשר in Hebrew culture. So in tranlsating literature or poetry it's sometimes better to translate נשר=eagle and עיט=vulture.
In modern Hebrew, 'Nesher' is used for vultures, in particular the griffon vulture which can be found in parts of Israel. Ayit עיט is used for the eagle. In Israel - the golden eagle as well as a few others esp. on migration.
