machzor

[ Sephardic Hebrew mahkh-zohr; Ashkenazic Hebrew mahkh-zohr, -zawr, -zuhr ]

/ Sephardic Hebrew mɑxˈzoʊr; Ashkenazic Hebrew ˈmɑx zoʊr, -zɔr, -zər /

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noun, plural mach·zo·rim

[Sephardic Hebrew mahkh-zaw-reem; Ashkenazic Hebrew mahkh-zoh-rim], /Sephardic Hebrew mɑx zɔˈrim; Ashkenazic Hebrew mɑxˈzoʊ rɪm/, English.

mach·zors. Hebrew. mahzor.

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Words nearby machzor

Mach scale, Mach's principle, machtpolitik, Machu Picchu, -machy, machzor, Macías Nguema, macintosh, MacIver, mack, Mackay

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How to use machzor in a sentence

With a sense of something vaguely strange, she bent her eyes downward on her neighbour's Machzor.
Ghetto Tragedies|Israel Zangwill
The Machzor for Pentecost says, Israelites are as "full of meritorious works as a pomegranate is full of pips."
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala|Various

British Dictionary definitions for machzor

machzor

mahzor

/ Hebrew (maxˈzɔr, English mɑːkˈzɔː) /

noun plural -zorim (-zɔˈriːm, English -zəˈriːm)

a Jewish prayer book containing prescribed holiday rituals

Word Origin for machzor

literally: cycle

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