Yom Kippur

Alternative Spellings

Yom Kipur, Yom Kipper

Definitions

• day of atonement, arguably the most important day on the Jewish calendar

Example Sentences

• "Yom Kippur is on Shabbat this year."

Languages of Origin

Textual Hebrew

Etymology

יום כיפור

Who Uses This

Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements
Non-Jews: (words that have spread outside of Jewish networks)

Regions

North America

Dictionaries

The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).

Notes

Pronounced Yom kee-PUHR or Yom KIP-per. The date is the tenth of the month Tishrei