iberyor
Definitions
n. A leap year (in the Jewish calendar).
Example Sentences
"When it’s an ‘Iber Yor’ everything is double, instead of 30 days we have 60 days of simcha, which make all not good things ‘batul’ (nullified), known as ‘batul beshishim’, the Rebbe Shlita says that the simcha is in both months of Adar (also Adar Rishon)." (source)
Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
- Yiddish
Etymology
Y עיבור־יאָר iber-yor, lit. 'pregnant year'; note that iber does not come from Yiddish איבער iber 'above', but rather Hebrew עִבּוּר meaning 'pregnant', the term used in rabbinic literature on Adar Bet
- Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
- Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage
- North America
- Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
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Alternative Spellings
iber yor, iber-yor
Notes
A leap year in the Jewish calendar has 13 months (from the addition of a second Adar: Adar Bet) and occurs 7 times in every 19-year cycle.
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