tainah
Definitions
n. A complaint, grievance.
n. An opinion.
v. To voice a complaint.
v. To claim, offer an opinion.
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Example Sentences
“I have a tainah on you for forgetting to return my sefer.” (Weiser)
“So what's your tainah on the new carpet in the Beis Medrash.” (Weiser)
“I tainahed to the Menahel about the lousy food in yeshiva.” (Weiser)
“I tainah we should go vaiter now and ask Rebbe our shaila later.” (Weiser)
"But the fact is the Gemara uses the expression Lamos (in Iyov, from the shoresh “nameis”, meaning melt, here meaning a person who shrinks from doing chesed for his neighbor) mei’rei’aihu chesed regarding Ya’akov, which sounds like a tainah for not doing differently." (source)
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Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
- Yiddish
Etymology
TH טענה > Y טענה tayne
- Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)
- Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
- Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage
- North America
- Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
- Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim Weiser (Northvale, 1995).
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Alternative Spellings
taina, teinah, teina, tayna, taynah
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