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Whereas שׁוֹפִּינְג
is still the term that refers to that activity that my mother loves so much, shopping for clothes, Israelis call general shopping - like for food and electronics - קְנִיּוֹת.
For example:
קניות comes from the active-simple פָּעַל verb, לִקְנוֹת, which means, in Modern Hebrew, to buy or to purchase (in Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew, it also means to possess).
A single act of purchasing is a קְנִיָּה, in Modern Hebrew (in Rabbinic literature, this is a קִנְיָן).
For example:
From the same root of ק.נ.ה, a shopping mall is a קַנְיוֹן.
קְנִיּוֹת
Whereas שׁוֹפִּינְג
is still the term that refers to that activity that my mother loves so much, shopping for clothes, Israelis call general shopping - like for food and electronics - קְנִיּוֹת. |
| קְנֵה פָּחוֹת, חְיֵה יוֹתֵר buy less, live more (picture taken at a bus stop in Tel Aviv) |
For example:
עָשִׂיתִי קְנִיּוֹת אֶתְמוֹל בַּסּוּפֶּר.
I went (literally, did) shopping yesterday at the supermarket.קניות comes from the active-simple פָּעַל verb, לִקְנוֹת
, which means, in Modern Hebrew, to buy or to purchase (in Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew, it also means to possess).A single act of purchasing is a קְנִיָּה
, in Modern Hebrew (in Rabbinic literature, this is a קִנְיָן).For example:
אֶתְמוֹל עָשִׂיתִי קְנִיָּה גְּדוֹלָה.עַכְשָׁיו יֵשׁ מַסְפִּיק אֹכֶל.
Yesterday I made a big purchase. Now there's plenty of (literally, enough) food.From the same root of ק.נ.ה, a shopping mall is a קַנְיוֹן
.
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