savta

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Pronunciations

savta (SAV-tah) listen

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Definitions

  • n. Grandmother.

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Aramaic
  • Modern Hebrew

Etymology

  • MH סָבְתָא⁩ sávta

      • Who Uses This

      • Israel: Diaspora Jews who feel connected to Israel and have spent time there

      Regions

      • North America
      • South Africa
      • Australia / New Zealand

      Dictionaries

      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
      • The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).

      Alternative Spellings

      safta, savtah

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