ירק

From Proto-Semitic *waraq-.

• IPA^(key): /jɛrɪq/

ירק • (transliteration needed)

1. to be light coloured/colored, pale, green, yellow

• “yrq”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press

From the root י־ר־ק‎, from Proto-Semitic Proto-Semitic *waraq-.

יֶרֶק • (yéreq) m [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. vegetation, herbage, greenery

   ‏גן-הירק‎ ― vegetable garden

2. (colloquial) singular of יְרָקוֹת‎ (y'rakót)

יָרָק • (yaráq) m

1. herb, vegetable
   • 1 Kings 21:2:

     וַיְדַבֵּר אַחְאָב אֶל־נָבוֹת ׀ לֵאמֹר ׀ תְּנָה־לִּי אֶת־כַּרְמְךָ וִיהִי־לִי לְגַן־יָרָק כִּי הוּא קָרוֹב אֵצֶל בֵּיתִי וְאֶתְּנָה לְךָ תַּחְתָּיו כֶּרֶם טוֹב מִמֶּנּוּ אִם טוֹב בְּעֵינֶיךָ אֶתְּנָה־לְךָ כֶסֶף מְחִיר זֶה׃‎

     And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it [is] near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; [or], if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.[1]

   • Proverbs 15:17:

     טוֹב אֲרֻחַת יָרָק וְאַהֲבָה־שָׁם מִשּׁוֹר אָבוּס וְשִׂנְאָה־בוֹ׃‎

     Better [is] a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.[1]

יָרֹק • (yaróq) m

1. defective spelling of ירוק‎.

יָרַק • (yaráq) (pa'al construction)

1. To become green.
2. To spew.

• יקר‎, קיר‎