siddur

Definitions

• Jewish prayer book

Example Sentences

• "Each morning I read the prayers from the siddur."

Languages of Origin

• Textual Hebrew

Etymology

• סידור

Who Uses This

• Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements

Regions

• North America

Dictionaries

• 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).
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Alternative Spellings

siddir, sidur, sidir, sidder, sider