Etymology

kinnah

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Today it means: Any of the dirges or elegies traditionally recited by Jews on Tisha B'Av to mourn the destruction of both the First and Second Temple in Jerusalem and other tragedies in Jewish history, including the Crusades and the Holocaust. Full definition →

Hebrew קִינָה
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  1. Hebrew · borrowed fromקִינָה
  2. English todaykinnah

Borrowed from Hebrew קִינָה (kiná).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.