English Explanatory Dictionary

lehavdil

English dictionary entry

Meanings

intj
  1. excuse the comparison
  2. 2005, Michael Wex, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, pages 62-3
  3. 2005, Michael Wex, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, pages 62-3: "Gandhi and, lehavdl, Hitler were twentieth-century political figures"; "the cow and, lehavdl, the pig...."
  4. "Gandhi and, lehavdl, Hitler were twentieth-century political figures"; "the cow and, lehavdl, the pig...."

Pronunciation

/ləˈhɑv.dɪl/ /ləˈhɑv.dəl/ /lə.hɑvˈdil/

Word forms

lehavdil l'havdil lehavdel lehavdl

Etymology

From Yiddish להבֿדיל (lehavd(i)l), from Hebrew לְהַבְדִּיל (l'havdíl), the infinitive of הִבְדִּיל (hivdíl, “to separate, to distinguish”).

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