kinnah

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noun

Any of the dirges or elegies traditionally recited by Jews on Tisha B'Av to mourn the destruction of both the First and Second Temple in Jerusalem and other tragedies in Jewish history, including the Crusades and the Holocaust.

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Meanings

nounkinnah (plural kinnot or kinnoth)

plural kinnot · plural kinnoth · alternative qinah · alternative ḳinah

  1. JudaismAny of the dirges or elegies traditionally recited by Jews on Tisha B'Av to mourn the destruction of both the First and Second Temple in Jerusalem and other tragedies in Jewish history, including the Crusades and the Holocaust.

    Add a Kinah or Kinot in the Yizkor service in memory of those who were murdered.

    2024, David Golinkin, “How Should We Observe Simḥat Torah This Coming Year?”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 143

Origin

  1. Hebrewקִינָה
  2. Englishkinnah

Borrowed from Hebrew קִינָה (kiná).

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