ALIYAH

aliyah

(noun) (Judaism) immigration of Jews to Israel; “students making aliyah”

aliyah

(noun) (Judaism) the honor of being called up to the reading desk in the synagogue to read from the Torah; “he was called on for an aliyah”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Proper noun

Aliyah

A female given name from Arabic of modern American usage, a variant of Aaliyah.

Etymology 2

Noun

Aliyah (plural Aliyahs)

Alternative letter-case form of aliyah

Proper noun

Aliyah

A female given name from Hebrew.

Anagrams

• Aliyha

Etymology

Noun

aliyah (plural aliyahs or aliyot or aliyoth or aliyos)

(Judaism, countable) The calling up of someone to the bimah for the reading of the Torah.

(uncountable) The immigration of Jews to Israel.

(countable) One of the major waves of immigration of Jews to Israel.

Usage notes

• The plural used for the "wave of immigration" sense is almost exclusively aliyot.

Antonyms

• (immigration from Israel): yerida

Verb

aliyah (third-person singular simple present aliyahs, present participle aliyahing, simple past and past participle aliyahed)

(intransitive, rare) To make aliyah, to immigrate to Israel.

Anagrams

• Aliyha

Source: Wiktionary

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