In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
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
Aliyah
A female given name from Arabic of modern American usage, a variant of Aaliyah.
Aliyah (plural Aliyahs)
Alternative letter-case form of aliyah
Aliyah
A female given name from Hebrew.
• Aliyha
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.
• The plural used for the "wave of immigration" sense is almost exclusively aliyot.
• (immigration from Israel): yerida
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.
• Aliyha
Source: Wiktionary
18 April 2024
(adjective) impelling to action; “it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function”- Arthur Pap; “motive pleas”; “motivating arguments”
In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.