menorah

Pronunciations

menorah

(meh-NOR-ah)

Definitions

• n. Candelabrum, especially for Chanukah.
  

Example Sentences

• "Even after lighting the menorah we don't extinguish the Shamash" (source)
  

Languages of Origin

• Textual Hebrew

Etymology

• מנורה
  

Who Uses This

• Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements
• Non-Jews: (words that have spread outside of Jewish networks)

Regions

• North America

Dictionaries

• The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
• 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

menora, m'nora, menoyre