badchanus
badchanus noun: the profession, art, or world of badchens.
Noun
badchanus (uncountable)
- The profession, art, or world of badchens.
- But a tone of love was felt in the badchon's reproach, the challenge of a friend, of a friend, of a true son of his people. This circumstance contributed considerably to the popularity of the badchonim and their badchonus—songs.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 438
- Indeed, the flowering of Yiddish theater and literature in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries probably owes a great deal to the persistence of badchanut—the art of the badchan.2001, Anita Diamond, New Jewish Wedding
Questions about badchanus
- What does badchanus mean?
- Badchanus means the profession, art, or world of badchens.
- What part of speech is badchanus?
- Badchanus is a noun.
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