bochur

/ˈbʌxər/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

"My son told me that the principal had passed a new rule that if a bochur were a smoker, he had to leave the yeshiva and could not return until he stopped smoking."

From Hebrew בָּחוּר (“young man”).

bochurim (plural) bahur (alternative) bachur (alternative) bocher (alternative) bokher (alternative) bokhur (alternative)

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How do you pronounce bochur?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈbʌxər/.

What does bochur mean?

A (male) student at a yeshiva.

Where does bochur come from?

It is traced to Hebrew.

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