Definitions for Kaddish

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Kaddish Kad·dish

Spelling: [Ashkenazic Hebrew kah-dish; Sephardic Hebrew kah-deesh<

IPA: /Ashkenazic Hebrew ˈkɑ dɪʃ; Sephardic Hebrew kɑˈdiʃ/

Kaddish is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 107 anagrams from letters in Kaddish (addhiks).

Definitions for Kaddish

noun

1. (italics) a liturgical prayer, consisting of three or six verses, recited at specified points during each of the three daily services and on certain other occasions.
2. (italics). Also called Mourner's Kaddish. the five-verse form of this prayer that is recited at specified points during each of the three daily services by one observing the mourning period of 11 months, beginning on the day of burial, for a deceased parent, sibling, child, or spouse, and by one observing the anniversary of such a death.
3. Kaddishim, persons who recite this prayer.

Origin of Kaddish

First recorded in 1605-15, Kaddish is from the Aramaic word qaddīsh holy (one)

Examples for Kaddish

When they leave, the dying man teaches his son how to say "Kaddish" for his soul when he is dead.

They came to that gem of humility, the mourners' prayer; the ancient and ever-solemn Kaddish prayer.

Selig made no reply, he only gazed at his Kaddish with a beaming face.

There was not even one of her kin to say the first Kaddish over her resting-place.

(Maariv, p.1, NRG Hebrew) Palestinian youth says Kaddish for a Holocaust survivor?

I spoke the only Kaddish for her soul, but we, after all, were complete strangers to her!

Only no one may say Kaddish for me, no one may pray for the repose of my soul.

In the synagogues the Kaddish (prayer for the dead) was recited as for a beloved parent.