Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lehavdil

/ləˈhɑv.dɪl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lehavdil
IPA: /ləˈhɑv.dɪl/

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

intj

excuse the comparison

intj

2005, Michael Wex, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, pages 62-3

intj

2005, Michael Wex, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, pages 62-3: "Gandhi and, lehavdl, Hitler were twentieth-century political figures"; "the cow and, lehavdl, the pig...."

Etymology

From Yiddish להבֿדיל (lehavd(i)l), from Hebrew לְהַבְדִּיל (l'havdíl), the infinitive of הִבְדִּיל (hivdíl, “to separate, to distinguish”).

Origin

Source language: Yiddish

Word Breakdown

Root: להבֿדיל, לְהַבְדִּיל

Inflected Forms

l'havdil (alternative) lehavdel (alternative) lehavdl (alternative)

Questions

How do you pronounce lehavdil?: The recorded pronunciation is /ləˈhɑv.dɪl/.
What does lehavdil mean?: excuse the comparison
Where does lehavdil come from?: It is traced to Yiddish.

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