levaye

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Pronunciations

levaye (leh-VYE-yuh) listen

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Definitions

  • n. A funeral.

Example Sentences

  • "The levaye is at 3:00 PM with shiva at the house at 4:30."

  • "So, what kind of yeshiva is it that forbids a bochur to attend a levaye of a Zaddik?" (source)

  • "So many people came to the levaya that they jammed all the roads around the house." (Glinert)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • TH לוויה levayá (commonly הלוויה halvayá in Modern Hebrew) > Y לוויה leváye

      • Who Uses This

      • Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)
      • Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
      • Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage

      Regions

      • North America
      • Great Britain
      • South Africa
      • Australia / New Zealand

      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 Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).

      Alternative Spellings

      levaya, levayah, l'vaya

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