rachmones

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noun

Mercy, compassion, pity.

OriginYiddish רחמנות →
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Meanings

nounrachmones (uncountable)
  1. JudaismuncountableMercy, compassion, pity.

    Jews are liberals because of rachmones, often translated as compassion, but really so much more.

    2009 September 27, “‘Why Are Jews Liberals?’”, in New York Times
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    We all haven’t been lucky enough to have been born Jews, you know. So a little rachmones on the less fortunate, okay?

    1969, Philip Roth, “The Jewish Blues”, in Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, page 75

Origin

  1. Yiddishרחמנות“mercy”
  2. Englishrachmones

Borrowed from Yiddish רחמנות (rakhmones, “mercy”).

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Chicago

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