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Meaning of kinnah | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

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.

Judaism

Examples

“Add a Kinah or Kinot in the Yizkor service in memory of those who were murdered.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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