Etymology

hiloni

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Today it means: An irreligious and/or lightly-observant Jew Full definition →

Hebrew חילוני
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  1. Hebrew · borrowed fromחילוני“secular”
  2. English todayhiloni

Borrowed from Hebrew חילוני (“secular”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.