Pronunciations

Definitions

• n. Wedding ceremony (not including reception).
  

• n. "The Jewish wedding canopy; that is, the cloth under which the Jewish wedding ceremony is conducted." (JPS)
  

Example Sentences

Languages of Origin

• Textual Hebrew
• Yiddish

Etymology

• Heb חופה khupá, Yiddish חופּה khúpe
  

Who Uses This

• Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements

Regions

• North America
• Great Britain
• South Africa
• Australia / New Zealand

Dictionaries

• The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
• Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
• The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
• The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
• Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).
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Alternative Spellings

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