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tahanun

tahanun is the alternative form of tachanun.

Meaning of tachanun

Noun

tachanun (uncountable)

  1. (Judaism) A penitential prayer service.

Questions about tahanun

What is tahanun the alternative form of?
Tahanun is the alternative form of tachanun.

Words near tahanun in the dictionary

  1. tah-tah
  2. taha
  3. tahaarah
  4. Tahami
  5. tahan
  6. tahanun
  7. Tahara
  8. Tahara Bridge
  9. Tahara West
  10. taharah
  11. taharas hamishpacha

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tahanun (page history and authors); tachanun (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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