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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
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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