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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Yiddish אַפֿיקומן (afikoymen), from Hebrew אֲפִיקוֹמָן ('afikomán).
Pronunciation
Noun
afikomen (plural afikomens)
- (Judaism) The matzoh eaten at a Passover seder, after dinner.
2008 April 22, Clyde Haberman, “The Unsavory Is No Rarity at City Hall”, in New York Times:The Passover Seders that Jews celebrated on the weekend would have been incomplete without the afikomen.
Translations
matza eaten after seder dinner