akum
Meanings
noun
- An idolater, a heathen, a nonbeliever
- A non-Jew (used to avoid censorship in Jewish texts).
Word forms
Etymology
Presumably from Hebrew עכו״ם (an acronym for the phrase עובד כוכבים ומזלות "worshiper of stars and constellations"), pronounced as a word.
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