chabura - Jewish English Lexicon

chabura

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Pronunciations

chabura

(khuh-BOO-ruh)

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Definitions

n. Study group.

Example Sentences

"The YIML Pre-Shacharis Mussar Chabura for Men with Rabbi Steinberg will be starting a new and exciting limmud!" (source)
"Mazel tov to the awesome Rav Shaya Klyne and the entire Manchester-SCP Chabura upon their siyum of hilchos muktzah!" (source)

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Languages of Origin

Textual Hebrew
Aramaic

Who Uses This

Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)

Regions

North America
Great Britain
South Africa

Dictionaries

Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim Weiser (Northvale, 1995).

Alternative Spellings

habura, chaburah, haburah

Notes

Accent on second syllable. Etymologically related to chavura, but used in a different way. The /b/ is not from Aramaic, because the cognate word in Aramaic has a /v/ (Sokoloff, Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic). The /b/ may be due to confusion with the Biblical Hebrew word for 'bruise', which does have a /b/.

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