kimat
Pronunciations
kimat | (kee-MAHT) | listen |
Definitions
adv. "Almost or nearly." (Weiser)
Example Sentences
Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
- Yiddish
Etymology
Heb כמעט, Yiddish כּמעט kimát
- Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)
- North America
- Great Britain
- 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).
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Alternative Spellings
kim'at, kemat
Notes
Stress on second syllable.
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