mikveh
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English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Hebrew מִקְוֶה (mikvé, “collection ”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mikveh (plural mikvehs or mikveot or mikvos or mikvot or mikvoth)
- (Judaism) A ritual bath in which various Jewish purifications are performed.
- 2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage, published 2007, page 197:
- On the night before her wedding Channa Washinsky would certainly have immersed herself in the ritually cleansing waters of the mikveh.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 365:
- Adjacent were the remains of a mikvah bath for the ritual purification of women, and a kosher abattoir for the ritual slaughter of beasts [...].
Translations
ritual bath in which various Jewish purifications are performed
