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- Hebrew · derived fromדבק“cling”
- Yiddish · borrowed fromדיבוק
- English todaydybbuk
From Yiddish דיבוק (dibek), from Hebrew דבק (dovek, “cling”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
dybbuk
Today it means: A malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person. Full definition →
Yiddish דיבוק ← Hebrew דבק