Etymology

siyum

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Today it means: A celebration held upon completing the reading of a unit of Judaic scripture; a graduation. Full definition →

Hebrew סִיּוּם
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The story

  1. Hebrew · borrowed fromסִיּוּם“completion”
  2. English todaysiyum

From Hebrew סִיּוּם (siyúm, “completion”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.