sechel
Pronunciations
Definitions
n. "Common sense" (JPS), intelligence.
Example Sentences
"She should use her saykhel for such an important decision."
“This time, we are not dealing with a rasha (an evil person) but a person who lacks sechel” (source)
Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
- Yiddish
Etymology
Heb שכל sékhel, Yiddish שׂכל séykhl
- Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
- North America
- Great Britain
- South Africa
- Australia / New Zealand
- View More
- 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
saykhel, seychel, seykhel, seichel, seykhl, saichel
Notes
This word originally stems from Hebrew but is more closely associated with Yiddish discourse.
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