Shacharit

Definitions

• n. The Jewish morning prayer service.
  

Example Sentences

• "Who is davening Shacharit today?"
  

• "You'll have to get up at 6:45 if you want to say Shacharit before you go to work." (Glinert)
  

Languages of Origin

• Textual Hebrew
• Yiddish

Etymology

• Heb. שַׁחֲרִית (from שַׁחַר shachar 'dawn', literally meaning 'little dawn' or 'of dawn') > Yid. שחרית shakhres
  

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

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

Shacharis, Shachris, Shakharit, Shakharis, Shakhris, Shachres, Shakhres