Etymology

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Today it means: An idolater, a heathen, a nonbeliever Full definition →

Hebrew עכו״ם
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  1. Hebrew · borrowed fromעכו״ם
  2. English todayakum

Presumably from Hebrew עכו״ם (an acronym for the phrase עובד כוכבים ומזלות "worshiper of stars and constellations"), pronounced as a word.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.