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noun
An Ashkenazi memorial prayer service for the dead.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Judaism, attributive, often
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Hebrew יִזְכּוֹר (literally “may [God] remember”), from the opening word of the service.
