yad

[ Sephardic Hebrew yahd; Ashkenazic Hebrew yawd ]

/ Sephardic Hebrew yɑd; Ashkenazic Hebrew yɔd /

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noun, plural ya·dim

[Sephardic Hebrew yah-deem; Ashkenazic Hebrew yaw-dim]. /Sephardic Hebrew yɑˈdim; Ashkenazic Hebrew ˈyɔ dɪm/. Hebrew.

a tapered, usually ornamented rod, usually of silver, with the tip of the tapered part forming a fist with the index finger extended, used by the reader of a scroll of the Torah as a place marker.

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Origin of yad

yādh literally, hand

Words nearby yad

yachting, yachtsman, yachtswoman, yack, yackety-yak, yad, yada-yada-yada, yadda yadda yadda, Yadkin, Yad Vashem, yae

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How to use yad in a sentence

“I feel a little revenge,” she said of presenting her photograph to Yad Vashem.
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It was almost enough to nominate Rouhani as a Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem.
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Her short response was mostly about how much she wishes she could respond to everyone, but was "at Yad Vashem" and couldn't.
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He will also visit Yad Vashem, the memorial to Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
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At Yad Vashem, President Obama will be told to “never forget” while conveniently ignoring the ghost of the Nakba just outside.
Mr. President, Don’t Forget The Nakba|Yousef Munayyer|March 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST
He translated several parts of Maimonides' "Yad ha Hazakah."
Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ|Rev. A. Bernstein, B.D.
I think it is thus to be supplied: prpto bhavishyasi (yad) svakritapranunnah.
The Gtakaml|rya Sra
No. 80 is a copy of Maimonides' Yad Hachazaka, revised by the author, with his autograph signature at the bottom of fol.
Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867|William Dunn Macray
Tr yać ćhat mahishṇm agho ms tr sarṇsi maghav somypḥ kraṁ na vive ahvanta dev bharam indrya yad ahim ǵaghna; Ṛigv.
Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)|Angelo de Gubernatis
Dvdaa dyn yad agohyasytithye raṇann ṛibhavaḥ sasantaḥ sukshetrkṛiṇvann anayanta sindhn dhanvtishṭhann oshadhr nimnam paḥ; Ṛigv.
Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)|Angelo de Gubernatis

British Dictionary definitions for yad

yad

/ (jɑd) /

noun

Judaism a hand-held pointer used for reading the sefer torah

Word Origin for yad

Hebrew

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