English Explanatory Dictionary

Amora

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of the Jewish scholars of about 200 to 500 CE who orally transmitted the teachings of the Mishna.

Word forms

Amora Amoras Amoraim

Etymology

From Hebrew אָמוֹרָא (āmorā), from Aramaic.

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