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badchan

badchan is the alternative form of badchen.

Meaning of badchen

Noun

badchen (plural badchens)

  1. (Judaism) A kind of Ashkenazic professional wedding entertainer, poet, and master of ceremonies originating in Eastern Europe.
    • Already in the first centuries of the Common Era there existed professional badchonim, whose task it was to cheer the sad and to make peace between enemies, an aim indicating the high conception that the badchonim had of their profession.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 436

Forms of badchan

pluralbadchans
pluralbadchanim

Questions about badchan

What is badchan the alternative form of?
Badchan is the alternative form of badchen.

Words near badchan in the dictionary

  1. badboy
  2. badboys
  3. Badby
  4. badbye
  5. badbyes
  6. badchan
  7. badchanim
  8. badchans
  9. badchanus
  10. badchen
  11. badchens

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