roykh

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Pronunciations

roykh (ROYKH) listen

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Definitions

  • n. Smoke.

Example Sentences

  • "It described a terrible new story of outrage, the smoke and dust, the roykh un stoyb [dust], left after the cataclysm in New York on Sept. 11." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • רױך roykh

      • Who Uses This

      • Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
      • Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).

      Alternative Spellings

      roych, roich, roikh

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