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hagalah

hagalah noun: the process of putting eating utensils into boiling water to kasher them.

Noun

hagalah (uncountable)

  1. (Judaism) The process of putting eating utensils into boiling water to kasher them.

Forms of hagalah

alternative formhag'alah

Origin of hagalah

Borrowed from Hebrew הַגְעָלָה.

Questions about hagalah

What does hagalah mean?
Hagalah means the process of putting eating utensils into boiling water to kasher them.
What part of speech is hagalah?
Hagalah is a noun.

Words near hagalah in the dictionary

  1. Hagadist
  2. Hagadistic
  3. Hagadists
  4. Hagadorn
  5. Hagadorns
  6. hagalah
  7. Hagaman
  8. Hagamans
  9. Hagan
  10. Haganah
  11. Hagans

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