单词 | yom kippur |
释义 | Yom Kippurn. The annual Jewish day of repentance and expiation (concluding the Ten Days of Repentance which begin with Rosh Hashanah), observed on the tenth day of the month of Tishri and marked by prayer and fasting. Also called Day of Atonement.Generally considered to be the most important day of the Jewish religious calendar. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > Jewish seasons and feasts > Yom Kippur > [noun] Day of Atonement1617 Day of Expiation1674 Yom Kippur1735 1735 I. Solomon Let. 29 July in J. R. Marcus Early Amer. Jewry (1951) I. 111 Should take it as a great feavour to send me for my money, if it is to be bought there, a Yom Kippur tefillah, because I cannot be with him with a good heart and a safe conscience at such a holy time. 1753 Jewish Ritual 25 The Day before the Yom Kippure. 1846 Jewish Chron. 21 Aug. 199/1 Rosh Hashana (New Year), and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), were kept by most of our co-religionists. 1854 Asmonean 6 Oct. 198/3 I will tell thee now why the Jews in Gneson do not wear the kittel at Jaumkipur. 1878 Harper's Oct. 768/2 This..is a Shophar, such as is blown in the synagogues on the Jewish New Year..and the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). 1907 I. Zangwill Ghetto Comedies 20 With a woman Yom Kippur is a wonder-working day. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 145 Their butteries and larders. I'd like to see them do the black fast Yom Kippur. 1941 Contemp. Jewish Record 4 429/2 Last Yom Kippur..Nazi elite guards..evicted Jews from a synagogue in Szczucin. 1974 Ann. Reg. 1973 200 Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), when there is no public transport [in Israel] or private or public business and even non-observant Jews stay at home, fell on 6 October. 1981 C. MacLeod Palace Guard xii. 89 ‘Have you ever in your life seen anybody eat the way he does?’ ‘Yes, my Uncle Hymie on the night after Yom Kippur.’ 2011 Wall St. Jrnl. 8 Oct. a17/1 This weekend, more than 7,000 members are expected to attend Yom Kippur services. Compounds Yom Kippur War n. an Arab-Israeli war that began on Yom Kippur on 6 October 1973 and ended in the same month.The war began when Egypt and Syria simultaneously attacked Israeli forces from the south and north respectively. An Israeli counter-attack repulsed the Syrians and surrounded the Egyptians, and a ceasefire was implemented on 25 October. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > other specific war Punic War1556 Vandal war1613 American Civil War1775 Seven Years War1775 Revolutionary Wara1784 Peninsular war1811 Great War1815 Mormon war1833 opium war1841 the Thirty Years' War1841 the Thirty Years' War1842 Mexican War1846 Napoleonic War1850 Crimean War1854 Hundred Years War1874 Balkan war1881 Boer War1883 Winter War1939 Six Day War1967 Yom Kippur War1973 Gulf War1981 Falklands conflict1982 1973 N.Y. Times 8 Oct. 15/3 In the midst of what will no doubt become known as the ‘Yom Kippur war’, Jerusalem is the eye of the hurricane. 1991 Airforces Monthly Oct. 11/1 By the time the Yom Kippur War broke out in October 1973 he was a deputy commander of a Mirage squadron. 2001 C. Coker Humane Warfare iii. 65 In Israel, 30 per cent of combat casualties in the 1973 Yom Kippur War were psychiatric. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1735 |
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