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Hebrew
Etymology
From לֵיל (leil, “night or evening of”) + כָּל (kol, “all of”) + ה־ (ha-, “the”) + קְּדוֹשִׁים (k'doshim, “saints”), calque of English Halloween, itself a shortening of All-Hallow-even, All Hallows’ Eve (the name of the evening before All Saints Day).
Proper noun
לֵיל כָּל הַקְּדוֹשִׁים • (leil kol hak'doshím) m
- Halloween
2015, Claire Keegan, ללכת בשדות הכחולים, Zikit Publishing House, translation of Walk the Blue Fields (in English), →ISBN:בבוקר חג המולד הוא נכנס לאמבטיה. הוא לא עשה אמבטיה מאז ליל כל הקדושים.