baruch haba

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Pronunciations

baruch haba (bah-RUUKH hah-BAH) listen

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Definitions

  • interj. Welcome!

Example Sentences

  • "Hi, Vivian, I wasn't expecting you—baruch haba!" (Glinert)

  • "Sung in the style of a traditional Old World badkhn (wedding jester), his texts flits between Old and New World, counterpoising 'a heymishn borekh habo' (a home-style welcome), a phrase with a resonance of traditional Yiddish culture, with 'dem kompakt disk' (this CD), clearly a term recently imported into the Yiddish language." (source)

  • "Baruch Habo to our new friends!"

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • ברוך הבא barukh haba 'blessed be the one who comes' > Y ברוך־הבאָ borkh-abe

      • Who Uses This

      • Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
      • Camp: Jews who attend or work at a Jewish overnight summer camp
      • Israel: Diaspora Jews who feel connected to Israel and have spent time there

      Regions

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

      Dictionaries

      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
      • 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).

      Alternative Spellings

      barech habo, baruch habo, borech habo, barukh habo, borukh habo, barekh habo, borekh habo, boruch haba, barech haba, borech haba, barukh haba, borukh haba, barekh haba, borekh haba, baruch habe, boruch habe, barech habe, borech habe, barukh habe, borukh habe, barekh habe, borekh habe, borkhabe

Notes

  • feminine: 'brucha haba'a'
    plural: 'bruchim haba'im'

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