kimat

Pronunciations

kimat

(kee-MAHT)

Definitions

• adv. "Almost or nearly." (Weiser)
  

Example Sentences

• "He's kimat a rov."
  

• "After the yeshiva was built, so many frum people came in and bought houses that it's now kemat a Jewish town."
  

Languages of Origin

• Textual Hebrew
• Yiddish

Etymology

• Heb כמעט, Yiddish כּמעט kimát
  

Who Uses This

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

Regions

• Great Britain
• 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

kim'at, kemat