[Debian-hebrew-common] OT: Questions to Hebrew(?) song ריח תפוח ואודם שני.

[kobi zamir]

http://he.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%9E%D7%93%D7%A8
smadar - the stage when a flower turns into a fruit. usually refers to
vines, when the grapes starts to swell.

it is mentioned in:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_Songs
as a sign of new birth, when the flowers ends and the fruit begins

the translation of the line may be:
in my garden (begani) the grapes (smadar) are starting to (kvar))
evolve (pitach)

it was written by yoram taharlev:
http://www.taharlev.com/english.asp
http://www.taharlev.com/songs_selection_song.asp?id=19


On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Paul Menzel
<paul at hellersdorfer-jugendchor.de> wrote:
> Dear Debian Hebrew list readers,
>
>
> sorry for posting to your list. I just do not know whom to contact. So
> if you can point me to a better place to ask this question, please go
> ahead.
>
> My choir is singing the song ריח תפוח ואודם שני.
>
> The German translation of the second line (transcription: kwar begani
> pitach a smadar) is: In the garden the smadar is blossoming again.
>
> This implies that smadar is some kind of flower. But my conductor could
> not find out what flower the smadar is. I searched the WWW and found [1]
> and [2] where it says that smadar is a hebrew name and means blossom. So
> it looks like the translation is not correct.
>
> Unfortunately I do not know Hebrew, so it would be great of you if you
> could enlighten me/us? Do you also know more about that song? Like where
> it comes from and if it is popular?
>
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Paul
>
>
> [1] http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/jew2.php
> [2] http://smadarstreasure.blogspot.com/
>
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