כּוֹנָן קָשִׁיחַ
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We’ve seen that while the generic Hebrew word for hard is קָשֶׁה
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, the word for tough, at least when describing a person, is קָשׁוּחַAn HTTP error occurred during file retrieval. Error Code: 503
, of the root ק.שׁ.ח. (k.sh.kh).
That same root forms the word for stiff or rigid – also hard – when describing an object – קָשִׁיחַ
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For example:
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קָנִיתִי דִּיסְק קָשִׁיחַ בִּמְחִיר מְצֻיָּן.
I bought a hard disk at an excellent price.
That’s the physical disk, but Google has taught us that a drive is not necessarily an object you can hold in your hand: in Hebrew, a hard drive is a כּוֹנָן קָשִׁיחַ
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