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akum

noun

Etymology

Presumably from Hebrew עכו״ם (an acronym for the phrase עובד כוכבים ומזלות "worshiper of stars and constellations"), pronounced as a word.

  1. borrowed from עכו"ם

Definitions

  1. An idolater, a heathen, a nonbeliever

  2. A non-Jew (used to avoid censorship in Jewish texts).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for akum. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA