English Explanatory Dictionary

didukh

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A Ukrainian decoration made from sheaves of wheat tied up with colorful ribbons, which is used in rituals around Christmas and Epiphany, and traditionally believed to contain ancestor spirits.

Word forms

didukh didukhs didukhy diduch

Etymology

Borrowed from Ukrainian діду́х (didúx), from дід (did, “grandfather”) + -ух (-ux, augmentative suffix).

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