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- Hebrew · borrowed fromאִזְמֵל“lancet, scalpel”
- English todayizmel
Borrowed from Hebrew אִזְמֵל (izmél, “lancet, scalpel”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
izmel
Today it means: A specialized surgical knife used by the mohel in the Jewish circumcision ritual of Brit Milah for infant males. It must have certain characteristics, per Jewish Law, including that it may not stop the flow of blood (unlike the constricting devices commonly used by a surgeon or Urologist). Full definition →
Hebrew אִזְמֵל