English Explanatory Dictionary

kinnah

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of the dirges or elegies traditionally recited by Jews on Tisha B'Av to mourn the destruction of both the First and Second Temple in Jerusalem and other tragedies in Jewish history, including the Crusades and the Holocaust.

Word forms

kinnah kinnot kinnoth qinah ḳinah

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew קִינָה (kiná).

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