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badkhan

badkhan 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 badkhan

pluralbadkhans
pluralbadkhanim

Questions about badkhan

What is badkhan the alternative form of?
Badkhan is the alternative form of badchen.

Words near badkhan in the dictionary

  1. badjoes
  2. badjoo
  3. badjoos
  4. badju
  5. badjus
  6. badkhan
  7. badkhanim
  8. badkhans
  9. badkhen
  10. badkhens
  11. badkhn

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