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badkhen

badkhen 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 badkhen

pluralbadkhens

Questions about badkhen

What is badkhen the alternative form of?
Badkhen is the alternative form of badchen.

Words near badkhen in the dictionary

  1. badju
  2. badjus
  3. badkhan
  4. badkhanim
  5. badkhans
  6. badkhen
  7. badkhens
  8. badkhn
  9. badkhns
  10. badkhon
  11. badkhonim

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