halevai
Pronunciations
halevai | (hah-leh-VAI) | listen |
Definitions
interj. If only.
interj. "Would that it be so." (Steinmetz, Yiddish and English)
interj. I wish!
Example Sentences
Languages of Origin
- Aramaic
- Yiddish
- Modern Hebrew
Etymology
הלוואי
- Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
- Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)
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- South Africa
- 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).
- Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim Weiser (Northvale, 1995).
- 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
halivai, alevay, halevay, halvay, halavai, alevai
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