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karpas

karpas noun: a traditional ritual dish eaten at Passover, consisting of a vegetable (typically celery or parsley) dipped in salt water or other liquid.

Noun

karpas

  1. (Judaism) A traditional ritual dish eaten at Passover, consisting of a vegetable (typically celery or parsley) dipped in salt water or other liquid.
    • She had looked at the girl as she took the karpas and when her face changed she thought it must be the bitterness.1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 243

Origin of karpas

Borrowed from Hebrew כַּרְפַּס (karpás).

Questions about karpas

What does karpas mean?
Karpas means a traditional ritual dish eaten at Passover, consisting of a vegetable (typically celery or parsley) dipped in salt water or other liquid.
What part of speech is karpas?
Karpas is a noun.

Words near karpas in the dictionary

  1. Karp reductions
  2. Karp-Lipton theorem
  3. Karp-reducible
  4. Karpak
  5. Karpaks
  6. karpas
  7. Karpathiot
  8. Karpathiots
  9. Karpathos
  10. Karpatian
  11. karpatite

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