טקס

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Hebrew

Alternative forms

טֶכֶס (see usage notes)

Etymology

Root
ט־ק־ס (ṭ-q-s)
1 term

Coined by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda in 1896 based on Ancient Greek τάξις (táxis) and Arabic طَقْس (ṭaqs) published in his daily newspaper, HaTzvi.

Noun

טֶקֶס • (tékes) m (plural indefinite טְקָסִים, plural construct טִקְסֵי־)

ritual, ceremony

Usage notes

Some use/prefer the spelling טֵכֶס (tekhes), which was common in Mishnaic Hebrew, but nowadays the Academy of the Hebrew Language recommends טֶקֶס (tekes),^[1] and it is far more common.^[2]

See also

פולחן / פֻּלְחָן m (pulkhan)

References

^ The Academy of the Hebrew Language (2011 March 15) “טקס או טכס?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name) (in Hebrew), retrieved 2016-10-26
^ טכס, טקס at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

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