Hatikvah
Pronunciations
Hatikvah | (huh-TEEK-vuh) | listen |
Definitions
n. Literally "the hope." "The Israeli national anthem." (Glinert)
Example Sentences
"Everyone please rise for HaTikva."
Languages of Origin
- Modern Hebrew
Etymology
התקווה
- Israel: Diaspora Jews who feel connected to Israel and have spent time there
- North America
- Great Britain
- South Africa
- Australia / New Zealand
- View More
- 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).
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