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Hebrew
Etymology
Originally חג הסוכות / חַג הַסֻּכּוֹת (khág hasukót, literally “Festival of Booths”), from חַג (khág) + סוכה / סֻכָּה (suká, “booth”), after the huts lived in during the holiday, or after the ancient huts the modern ones commemorate.
Proper noun
סוכות / סֻכּוֹת • (sukót) m
- (Judaism) Sukkot
Usage notes
- Because of its etymology (elision of a masculine singular phrase), סֻכּוֹת / סוכות, though feminine plural in form, is generally treated as masculine singular.
Yiddish
Proper noun
סוכות • (sukes) f pl
- (nonstandard) Unpointed form of סוכּות (sukes).
1946, I.J. Singer, “אַ ייד אַ מלמד פאַרגלוסט זיך צו ווערן אַ מלאך אום פּורים און פאַרלירט, נעבעך, אַן אויג”, in Fun a velt vos iz nishto mer:יעדן זמן אויפסניי, חול־המועד סוכות אָדער חול־המועד פּסח, בין איך געווען זייער האָפערדיק, וואָס מען האָט מיך גענומען איין מלמד און אָנגעדונגען צו אַן אַנדערן, גלײבנדיק, אַז דער נייער וועט זיין בעסער ווי דער אַלטער.- yedn zman oyfsnay, khalemoyed sukes oder khalemoyed peysekh, bin ikh geven zeyer hoferdik, vos men hot mikh genumen eyn melamed un ongedungen tsu an andern, gleybndik, az der nayer vet zayn beser vi der alter.
- Every term anew, during the intermediary periods of Sukkot and Pesach, I was very confident in being taken from one melamed and given to another, believing the new one would be better than the old.