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单词 shadchan
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shadchann.

Brit. /ˈʃadxən/, U.S. /ˈʃɑdxən/
Inflections: Plural shadchanim Brit. /ʃadˈxanɪm/, U.S. /ʃɑdˈxɑnɪm/, shadchans.
Forms: 1800s schadschan, 1800s schatchen, 1800s shadkin, 1800s– shadchan, 1800s– shatkhen, 1900s– schadchen, 1900s– schotchun, 1900s– shadchen, 1900s– shadkhan, 1900s– shadkhen, 1900s– shadkhn, 1900s– shatchen, 1900s– shatkhn.
Origin: A borrowing from Yiddish. Etymon: Yiddish shadkhn.
Etymology: < Yiddish shadkhn < post-biblical Hebrew šaddĕḵān (also šadḵān ) < post-biblical Hebrew šiddēḵ to arrange a marriage ( < Aramaic šaddēḵ to make proposals of marriage, to offer marriage gifts) + -ān , suffix forming agent nouns. Compare shidduch n., which is < the same Semitic base.In plural forms in -im after the Yiddish plural form shadkhanim and its model, the Hebrew plural form šaddĕḵānīm.
A Jewish professional matchmaker or marriage broker. Cf. shidduch n.The services of a shadchan are now most likely to be used by strictly Orthodox Jews.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > match-making > [noun] > match-maker > where arranged match is usual
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1882 tr. L. Kompert Scenes from Ghetto 250 ‘You will not be able to find a better match,’ said the schadschan; ‘in all Bohemia, your daughter's fortune will be envied!’
1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. 60 He sent a Shadchan to propose to her, and they were affianced, Chayah's father undertaking to give a dowry of two hundred gulden.
1959 ‘W. Haggard’ Venetian Blind vii. 98 I married her..because my parents, on the advice of a reliable shadchan..considered the match suitable.
1992 S. Heilman Defenders of Faith xviii. 281 Even before this turn of events, shadchanim , matchmakers, had already begun soliciting her parents.
2008 Wall St. Jrnl. 11 July w11/2 After determining whether the young woman wishes to marry a ‘learner’ (a man studying full time in yeshiva), an ‘earner’ (a professional) or a combination of the two, the shadchan collects the prospective bride's ‘shidduch résumé’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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