Etymology

nigun

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Today it means: A type of Ashkenazi Jewish worship song. Full definition →

Hebrew נִגּוּן ← Yiddish ניגון
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The story

  1. Yiddish · borrowed fromניגון
  2. Hebrew · borrowed fromנִגּוּן
  3. English todaynigun

Borrowed from Hebrew נִגּוּן (nigún) probably through Yiddish ניגון (nigun).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.