badchen
badchen noun: a kind of Ashkenazic professional wedding entertainer, poet, and master of ceremonies originating in Eastern Europe.
Noun
badchen (plural badchens)
- 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 badchen
| plural | badchens |
|---|---|
| alternative form | badchan |
| alternative form | badhan |
| alternative form | badkhan |
| alternative form | badkhen |
| alternative form | badkhn |
| alternative form | badkhon |
Questions about badchen
- What does badchen mean?
- Badchen means a kind of Ashkenazic professional wedding entertainer, poet, and master of ceremonies originating in Eastern Europe.
- What part of speech is badchen?
- Badchen is a noun.
- What is the plural of badchen?
- The plural of badchen is badchens.
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