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单词 yahrzeit
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Definition of yahrzeit in English:

yahrzeit

nounˈjɑːtsʌɪtˈyärˌtsīt
  • (among Jews) the anniversary of someone's death, especially a parent's.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • At the close of this last stage, the bereaved is not expected to continue his mourning, except for brief moments when yizkor or yahrzeit is observed.
    • The 11th of Cheshvan marks the yahrzeit (day commemorating the death) of our matriarch, Rachel.
    • It even lets you add birthdays and yahrzeits of loved ones, with a reminder for every year.
    • In these preparatory drawings, Hesse envisions a kind of canister with a false bottom that emits a rubber hose - like an oil lamp with a long wick or, more significantly, a yahrzeit candle.
    • This week's Kol Torah has been sponsored by the Brodsky Family to commemorate the yahrzeit of beloved mother and grandmother, scholar and teacher, Bernice Sherman Kramer.
    • But it's a thought provoking, perfectly-timed September 11th yahrzeit piece, that had me rethinking its arguments this morning.
    • Professor Judea Pearl of UCLA marked the yahrzeit of his son by writing an article published in the Wall Street Journal.
    • The yahrzeit fell on Monday night-Tuesday, October 21-22.
    • On TV tonight you saw dazed kids sitting on the ground, building memorials, lighting yahrzeit memorial candles and talking about how they just saw so and so a few minutes before they got on the fateful bus.
    • Written for the aliyat neshama of my father, Yisrael ben Yosef Yehuda, on the occasion of his 11th yahrzeit.
    • And this, the first yahrzeit of that tragedy and the season of the High Holy Days, is an appropriate time to rebuild our selves.
    • An anxious one, to be sure: each January brought not only Hesse's own birthday but the anniversary, or yahrzeit, of her mother's death.

Origin

Mid 19th century: Yiddish, literally 'anniversary time'.

 
 

Definition of yahrzeit in US English:

yahrzeit

nounˈyärˌtsīt
  • (among Jews) the anniversary of someone's death, especially a parent's.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In these preparatory drawings, Hesse envisions a kind of canister with a false bottom that emits a rubber hose - like an oil lamp with a long wick or, more significantly, a yahrzeit candle.
    • And this, the first yahrzeit of that tragedy and the season of the High Holy Days, is an appropriate time to rebuild our selves.
    • Professor Judea Pearl of UCLA marked the yahrzeit of his son by writing an article published in the Wall Street Journal.
    • The yahrzeit fell on Monday night-Tuesday, October 21-22.
    • An anxious one, to be sure: each January brought not only Hesse's own birthday but the anniversary, or yahrzeit, of her mother's death.
    • But it's a thought provoking, perfectly-timed September 11th yahrzeit piece, that had me rethinking its arguments this morning.
    • It even lets you add birthdays and yahrzeits of loved ones, with a reminder for every year.
    • The 11th of Cheshvan marks the yahrzeit (day commemorating the death) of our matriarch, Rachel.
    • At the close of this last stage, the bereaved is not expected to continue his mourning, except for brief moments when yizkor or yahrzeit is observed.
    • This week's Kol Torah has been sponsored by the Brodsky Family to commemorate the yahrzeit of beloved mother and grandmother, scholar and teacher, Bernice Sherman Kramer.
    • Written for the aliyat neshama of my father, Yisrael ben Yosef Yehuda, on the occasion of his 11th yahrzeit.
    • On TV tonight you saw dazed kids sitting on the ground, building memorials, lighting yahrzeit memorial candles and talking about how they just saw so and so a few minutes before they got on the fateful bus.

Origin

Mid 19th century: Yiddish, literally ‘anniversary time’.

 
 
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