yahrzeit

发音

UK /ˈjɑːtsaɪt/
其它
US /ˈjɑɹtsaɪt/

词形变化

yahrzeits 复数 yahrzeits

别名

jahrzeit yahrtzeit yartseit yartzeit yortsayt yortseit yortzite

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The anniversary of a person's death, usually a parent's, often marked by the lighting of a memorial candle and other rituals.

相关短语

yahrzeit candle yahrzeit candles

词源

PIE word *yóh₁r̥ Borrowed from Yiddish יאָרצײַט (yortsayt), from Middle High German jārzīt (“anniversary; Christian commemoration of a person’s death”); from Middle High German jār (“year”) (from Old High German jār (“year”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yéh₁-r/n- (“year”)) + Middle High German zīt (“time”) (from Old High German zīt (“time”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dh₂ítis (“part; time”), from the root *deh₂-, *deh₂-y- (“to chop up, divide; to distribute (pieces)”), whence also time and, via Ancient Greek, daemon). The Yiddish word is cognate with German Jahreszeit (“season”), which heavily influenced the spelling and pronunciation once the word was borrowed into English. Piecewise doublet of yeartide.

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