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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by earenndil on Friday October 11, 2019 @08:35PM (#21229650)
Meanwhile, in hebrew, it means spoiled or decayed. :)
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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by cben on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @04:23AM (#21332433)
That would be Rakuv רקוב, just Raku doesn't have any meaning in Hebrew. It does sound similar when pronounced though.

(Hebrew word formation is from 3-consonant roots, not concatenation, so removing a letter doesn't give a related word. It's either an invalid word or a different root with 3rd voiceless consonant רקוא which is a not a root / רקוע Raku'a "flattened" but that doesn't sounds quite differently.)

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