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shibah

shibah is the alternative spelling of shiva.

Meaning of shiva

Noun

shiva (countable and uncountable, plural shivas)

  1. (Judaism) A weeklong period of formal mourning for a close relative.
    • Did you know that some parents sit shiva […] for 30 days if their child is discovered to be gay?1974 February 2, “Jewish Gay Group”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 2

See all 3 meanings of shiva

Forms of shibah

pluralshibahs

Questions about shibah

What is shibah the alternative spelling of?
Shibah is the alternative spelling of shiva.

Words near shibah in the dictionary

  1. shiatzu
  2. Shiawassee County
  3. shiba
  4. shiba inu
  5. shiba inus
  6. shibah
  7. shibahs
  8. shibal
  9. shibar
  10. shibari
  11. shibars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shibah (page history and authors); shiva (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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