haft-sin

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Definitions

  • n. A traditional display of seven objects beginning with the letter S, serving as the centerpiece of the Nowruz celebration.

Example Sentences

  • "In Persian Jewish circles, many families place a holy book on their haft-seen table and in our family, we always had a siddur, a Jewish prayer book, and a tehillim, the book of Psalms, to remind us that, although we participated in a holiday in a foreign land, we were Jewish first and foremost." (source)

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Etymology

  • هفت‌سین, lit. 'seven S's'

      • Who Uses This

      • Persian: Jews with recent ancestry in Iran

      Regions

      • North America

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      Alternative Spellings

      haft-seen, haft sin, haft seen

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