shtiebel
/ʃtiːbəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "My brother's aufruf was last Shabbos as my father's shul, a shteibl he has attended since the early 60s (my beris was there, my bar mitzvah, my own aufruf, one of my sons' beris was there, etc...)"
- "The shtiebel fits that niche. Less structured than the large congregations, shtieblach offer a built-in community where everybody knows your name, but long-term expectations are low."
Etymology
From Yiddish שטיבל (shtibl, “small room/house, informal synagogue”), diminutive of שטוב (shtub) + ־ל (-l) from Old High German stuba, from Proto-West Germanic *stubu.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: שטיבל, stuba, *stubu
Inflected Forms
shtieblach (plural)
shtibel (alternative)