dayenu
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Pronunciations

daiyenu (dye-AY-noo) listen

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Definitions

  • interj. 'It would have been enough.'

  • n. A song and central concept of the Passover seder, expressing that each individual act of God performed for the Israelites during the Exodus would have been enough.

Example Sentences

  • "Had you just made challah and not put chocolate chips in it, dayeinu!"

  • "My favorite Passover song is Dayenu."

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew

Etymology

  • דיינו

      • Who Uses This

      • Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education

      Regions

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

      • The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
      • Yinglish: A Lexicon of Judeo-English by Aliza Bulow

      Alternative Spellings

      dayeinu, dyanu

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