rachmones
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Definitions
n. Mercy, pity, empathy.
Example Sentences
"For those for whom Yiddish is not a second language, or even a third or fourth, rachmones is defined by essentially four words: mercy, compassion, forgiveness and empathy." (source)
Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
- Yiddish
Etymology
Heb רחמנות rakhmanút, Yiddish rakhmónes
- Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)
- North America
- Great Britain
- South Africa
- The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
- Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
- The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
- The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
- Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim Weiser (Northvale, 1995).
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Alternative Spellings
rachmanut, rachmonis, rakhmones, rachmunes, rachmonus, rachmanus, rakhmonus, rakhmanus
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