levone

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Pronunciations

levone (luh-VAWN-uh) listen

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Definitions

  • n. The moon.

Example Sentences

  • "Coming home from the synagogue on the Day of Atonement, he asked us to go up with him to the roof  to mekadesh the levone, that is, to bless the moon with a prayer,  a thing we had never done before." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • Y לבֿנה levone

      • Who Uses This

      • Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
      • Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).

      Alternative Spellings

      levoneh

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