Etymology

luz

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Today it means: A small bone in the human spinal column, believed in Muslim and Jewish traditions to be the indestructible bone from which the body will be rebuilt at the time of resurrection. Full definition →

Hebrew לוּז
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  1. Hebrew · borrowed fromלוּז“almond”
  2. English todayluz

Borrowed from Hebrew לוּז (luz, “almond”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.