sukkah
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of sukkah
sukkāh literally, booth
Example Sentences
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Hired security guards then removed the sukkah, according to the Bruin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2024
The holiday of Sukkot, which follows Yom Kippur, is named after the huts, or sukkah, that represent the shelters freed Jews in their 40 years in the wilderness.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2023
Jewish congregations have scheduled sukkah time slots by pod, and one retreat center offered rentals for one POD, or People of your Own Designation, at a time.
From Slate ● Mar. 9, 2021
Indursky and Elon met in 2008, at an acquaintance’s sukkah.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 14, 2019
In the corner opposite the tree was the sukkah, or what Anya assumed was the sukkah.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
During this time, Jews eat, dwell and pray in outdoor structures known as sukkahs to remember the fragile structures their ancestors lived in after fleeing Egypt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2024
The parks department said it allowed sukkahs as long as “the applicant ensures that they are structurally safe.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2011
When he got back, they’d be able to build amazing sukkot together.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
This general relation is maintained also in details; in the first place, in the names of the feasts, which are the same in both,—pesah, shabuoth, sukkoth.
From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius
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