Etymology

Shavuot

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Today it means: A Jewish harvest festival which falls on the sixth day of Sivan in the spring, fifty days after the second day of the Passover when the omer (“sheaf of barley”) is offered. Full definition →

Hebrew שָׁבוּעוֹת
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  1. Hebrew · borrowed fromשָׁבוּעוֹת
  2. English todayShavuot

Borrowed from Hebrew שָׁבוּעוֹת (shavu'ót).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.