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- Hebrew · borrowed fromפּוּרִים
- English todayPurim
Borrowed from Hebrew פּוּרִים (purím, literally “lots”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Purim
Today it means: A Jewish festival, celebrated on the fourteenth day of Adar, commemorating the deliverance of the Persian Jews from a complete massacre at the hand of Haman the Amalekite. Full definition →
Hebrew פּוּרִים