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say it: uh-LEE-uh
aliyah is a noun meaning "(Judaism) the honor of being called up to the reading desk in the synagogue to read from the Torah". It is pronounced /əˈliə/ — uh-LEE-uh. It carries 2 recorded senses.
(Judaism) the honor of being called up to the reading desk in the synagogue to read from the Torah
“he was called on for an aliyah”
Judaism
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for aliyah come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.