Hebrew Word of the Day - Cha-ra
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 at 07:57AM by Charlie O'Donnell Cha-ra
1. Noun. Means ‘shit’.
2. Use in sentence: “Man, I feel like chara because I didn’t give Charlie a big good morning hello. I will try not to act like such a little chara in the future.”
Obviously, I called someone out on walking around the office with work blinders on... :)
UPDATE: Before you embarrass yourself, I just found out that the "ch" sound in this is not like the "ch" in Charlie or cheer... its the flemy gurglely noise that you make when you want to hock something out. I'm sure that's not a politically correct way of explaining that, but if you can come up with a better way to type out that noise, I'm all ears.
UPDATE: “The eight letter of the Hebrew alphabet is called “chet” (rhymes with mate) and has the (light scraping) sound ‘ch” as in “Bach”. "Light scraping"... ok, I guess that's a nicer way of putting it. (From Hebrew4christians.com)
“The eight letter of the Hebrew
alphabet is called “chet” (rhymes with mate) and has the (light scraping) sound
‘ch” as in “Bach”
Reader Comments (5)
my point is not to be pedanticbut to suggest that you find a more accurate Hebrew guide (though to be fair, I have not looked at the site ... that could be the one lonely mistake)
it has (i think) something to do with alternate ways of pronouncing the "tsere" vowel in hebrew
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anyway, i came across this Flash-based hebrew alphabet site while researching the question, which may prove helpful in the future
http://www.aish.com/literacy/judaism123/Learn_the_Hebrew_Letters.asp
chet is the third character in the first row from the left
its pronunciation by this speaker is closer to what i originally described, but that doesn't mean there aren't other ways of saying it