Pronunciations

Definitions

• n. "The four glasses of wine drunk on Passover" (Glinert).
  

Example Sentences

Languages of Origin

• Textual Hebrew
• Yiddish

Etymology

• Heb. ארבע כוסות arba kosot > Yid. ארבע כּוסות arbe koyses, 'four cups'
  

Who Uses This

• Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
• Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)

Regions

• North America
• Great Britain
• South Africa

Dictionaries

• The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
• The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).

Alternative Spellings

arba kosos, arba koses, arbe koses, arba kohses, arba koyses, arba koysos, arbe koyses, arbe koysos