achrayut

Pronunciations

achrayut	(ach-ra-YUT)
achrayus	(ach-RAI-yis)

Definitions

• n. "Obligation, financial or personal, to others: burden." (Weiser)
  

• n. "The religious responsibility you have to improve or rectify a given situation." (source)
  

• n. "Answerability or accountability: responsibility." (Weiser)
  

• n. "Reliability resulting from a sense of responsibility: dependability." (Weiser)
  

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Example Sentences

• "Bli neder, I'll learn some Mishnayos, but I can't take achraius for anyone else." (Weiser)
  

• "Ask him to prepare the leining; he has the most achraius." (Weiser)
  

• "With all his other achraius, I wonder how the Rosh Yeshiva finds time to prepare for shiur." (Weiser)
  

• "As Jews, we have an achraius...to vote." (source)
  

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Languages of Origin

• Textual Hebrew
• Yiddish

Etymology

• Heb. אַחֲרָיוּת acharayut 'responsibility (from אַחֲרַי acharai 'after me') > Yid. אַחריות akhrayes
  

Who Uses This

• Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)

Regions

• North America

Dictionaries

• Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
• Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim Weiser (Northvale, 1995).

Alternative Spellings

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