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pasken

pasken verb: to rule, decide, opine.

Verb

pasken (third-person singular simple present paskens, present participle paskening, simple past and past participle paskened)

  1. (Judaism) To rule, decide, opine.
    • When the Rambam paskins one way and the majority paskins another way, the dispute is over practice and customs.1997 May 12, Jay Lapidus, “Unique Medieval Jewish Philosophers”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet)

Forms of pasken

third-person singular presentpaskens
present participlepaskening
past participlepaskened
pastpaskened
alternative formpaskin

Origin of pasken

Borrowed from Yiddish פּסקענען (paskenen).

Questions about pasken

What does pasken mean?
Pasken means to rule, decide, opine.
What part of speech is pasken?
Pasken is a verb.
What is the past tense of pasken?
The past tense of pasken is paskened.

Words near pasken in the dictionary

  1. pasivirus
  2. pasiviruses
  3. paska
  4. paskas
  5. Paske
  6. pasken
  7. Paskenta
  8. Paskes
  9. Paskett
  10. Pasketts
  11. paskha

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