Etymology

mohel

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Today it means: The person who performs the circumcision in a Jewish bris. Full definition →

Hebrew מוֹהֵל ← Yiddish מוהל
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  1. Yiddish · borrowed fromמוהל
  2. Hebrew · borrowed fromמוֹהֵל
  3. English todaymohel

From Hebrew מוֹהֵל (mohél), but the common pronunciations are borrowed via Yiddish מוהל (moyel).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.