Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dayenu

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.17 in modern English

Syllables: dayenu
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

phrase

It will (or would) have been sufficient.

Example Sentences

"Harriet Meyer, president of Ounce of Prevention, remembers him saying, with a dollop of Hebrew, "If only we can build a place where kids from chaotic communities can have a predictable, responsive place for the next five years, then dayenu—that would be enough.""
"I have many more adventures planned for the year and I'm brimming. But if I get no farther down the road than this one extraordinary walk among the rivers of home, then dayenu, it will have been enough."

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew דַּיֵּנוּ (“it would have sufficed”): the title of a Passover song.

Origin

Source language: Hebrew

Word Breakdown

Root: דַּיֵּנוּ

Questions

What does dayenu mean?: It will (or would) have been sufficient.
Where does dayenu come from?: It is traced to Hebrew.

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