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dibbuk

dibbuk is the alternative form of dybbuk.

Meaning of dybbuk

Noun

dybbuk (plural dybbuks or dybbukim)

  1. (Judaism) A malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person.
    • And who am I? A dybbuk—a demon of all shapes and no shape. My profession is forced entry into the minds of mortals; my speciality is Jews.1993, Ellen Galford, The Dyke and the Dybbuk, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 6

Forms of dibbuk

pluraldibbuks
pluraldibbukim

Questions about dibbuk

What is dibbuk the alternative form of?
Dibbuk is the alternative form of dybbuk.

Words near dibbuk in the dictionary

  1. dibbly-dobbler
  2. dibbly-dobblers
  3. dibbly-dobblies
  4. dibbly-dobbly
  5. dibbs
  6. dibbuk
  7. dibbukim
  8. dibbuks
  9. Dibden
  10. Dibdens
  11. Dibdin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dibbuk (page history and authors); dybbuk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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