Etymology

shana tova

Today it means: Happy New Year; a common greeting on and around Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Full definition →

Hebrew שָׁנָה טוֹבָה
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The story

  1. Hebrew · borrowed fromשָׁנָה טוֹבָה“Happy New Year”
  2. English todayshana tova

From Hebrew שָׁנָה טוֹבָה (shaná tová, “Happy New Year”, literally “good year”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.