mehitzah

or me·chi·tzah

[ Sephardic Hebrew muh-khee-tsah; Ashkenazic Hebrew muh-khee-tsuh ]

noun

, Hebrew.

, plural me·hit·zoth, me·hit·zot, me·hit·zos [m, uh, -, kh, ee-, tsawt, m, uh, -, khee, -ts, uh, z, -, khee, -tsohs].

1. a curtain or other divider that serves as a partition between the women's and the men's sections in Orthodox Jewish synagogues.