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ḳinah

ḳinah is the alternative form of kinnah.

Meaning of kinnah

Noun

kinnah (plural kinnot or kinnoth)

  1. (Judaism) 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.
    • Add a Kinah or Kinot in the Yizkor service in memory of those who were murdered.2024, David Golinkin, “How Should We Observe Simḥat Torah This Coming Year?”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 143

Forms of ḳinah

pluralḳinot

Questions about ḳinah

What is ḳinah the alternative form of?
Ḳinah is the alternative form of kinnah.

Words near ḳinah in the dictionary

  1. Ḥassids
  2. Ḥassānīya
  3. ḥiškʷiiʔatḥ
  4. ḥP'ags-pa
  5. ḥPʻags-pa
  6. ḳinah
  7. ḳinot
  8. Ḳurʾān
  9. ḵ
  10. ḻarrakitj
  11. Ṛg Veda

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ḳinah (page history and authors); kinnah (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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