Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tzedakah

/t͡səˈdakə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.36 in modern English

Syllables: tzedakah
IPA: /t͡səˈdakə/

25

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The Jewish tradition of charity.

Example Sentences

"Wherever Jews have lived in relative freedom and free markets—the United States, Britain and its commonwealth, the Ottoman Near East, post-Enlightenment Western Europe—we've done pretty well. We've built great communities. We've devoted ourselves to Torah. We've pursued tzedakah, charity, with abandon."
"I began to fill this little wooden tzedakah box with tiny slips of paper, each containing a single word or phrase as a “prompt” for remembering some gifted moment or intense experience of my life."

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew צְדָקָה (ts'daká, “charity”).

Origin

Source language: Hebrew

Word Breakdown

Root: צְדָקָה

Inflected Forms

tzedakot (plural) tzedakahs (plural) tsedakah (alternative) tzedaka (alternative) zedakah (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

chesed sadaqa

Questions

How do you pronounce tzedakah?: The recorded pronunciation is /t͡səˈdakə/.
What does tzedakah mean?: The Jewish tradition of charity.
Where does tzedakah come from?: It is traced to Hebrew.

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