Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kinnah

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: kin-nah
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the dirges or elegies traditionally recited by Jews on Tisha B'Av to mourn the destruction of both the First and Second Temple in Jerusalem and other tragedies in Jewish history, including the Crusades and the Holocaust.

Example Sentences

"Add a Kinah or Kinot in the Yizkor service in memory of those who were murdered."

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew קִינָה (kiná).

Inflected Forms

kinnot (plural) kinnoth (plural) qinah (alternative) ḳinah (alternative)

Questions

What does kinnah mean?: Any of the dirges or elegies traditionally recited by Jews on Tisha B'Av to mourn the destruction of both the First and Second Temple in Jerusalem and other tragedies in Jewish history, including the Crusades and the Holocaust.
Where does kinnah come from?: Borrowed from Hebrew קִינָה (kiná).

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