Rosh Hashana
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7.2
- proper noun
- /roʊʃ hɑːˈʃɑːnə/
- Jargon
:
Rosh Hashaná
- In preparation for that solemn day, on Rosh Hashanah we perform tashlich.
- Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur
- Rosh Hashana and Yom
- Rosh Hashana, the Jewish
Examples
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Now that very Friday night was going to be Rosh Hashanah, the start of the Jewish New Year.
Academic text (2008) -
The autumn I was seven, Rosh Hashanah fell early, midway through the hottest September that I had ever seen.
Fiction book (1990) -
Tomorrow my dad and I are having a bunch of people over to celebrate Rosh Hashanah.
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May you and yours find great beauty, joy, and peace of heart this Rosh Hashanah.
Blog text (10) -
On Rosh Hashanah, we are supposed to apologize to those we hurt in previous years.
Blog text (29) -
Women and girls light candles on each evening of Rosh Hashanah and recite the appropriate blessings.
Blog text (33) -
The shofar is sounded on both days of Rosh Hashanah (unless the first day of the holiday falls on Shabbat).
Blog text (33) -
Before starting the Rosh Hashanah meal, the Kiddush (prayer) is said over a cup of wine or grape juice.
Blog text (33) -
Much of the day is spent in synagogue, with the central observance of Rosh Hashanah being the sounding of the shofar, the ram's horn.
Blog text (33) -
Tomorrow my dad and I are having a bunch of people over to celebrate Rosh Hashanah.
Synonyms
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5.3
A solemn Jewish festival that marks the start of the year with prayers and the blowing of a horn
A Jewish festival that marks the new year with prayer and the blowing of a ram's horn
A Jewish New Year festival in early autumn marked by prayer and the blowing of a ram's horn
A Jewish new year holiday marked by prayer and the sounding of a ram's horn
Surface Forms
Morphology
Rosh + Hashana
The constituents 'Rosh' and 'Hashana' are not English vocabulary items and are marked as not found in the dictionary, so a typical B1 English learner who knows English words would not be able to derive the festival meaning from them. The phrase is a culturally specific proper name (Hebrew origin) whose meaning (the Jewish New Year) is not transparently compositionally deducible to learners of English, making it idiomatic/opaque in this context.
Etymology
Rosh Hashana comes from Hebrew words Rosh and Hashana, meaning 'head' and 'year', so the name means 'head of the year'. That's why Rosh Hashana is the Jewish New Year, a time for prayer, thinking about the year, and hearing the shofar.