haftarah

What does haftarah mean?

haftarah means "a short selection from the Prophets read on every Sabbath in a Jewish synagogue following a reading from the Torah".

How many syllables are in haftarah?

haftarah has 3 syllables and divides as haf-ta-rah under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for haftarah?

Close synonyms include Haftorah, Haphtorah, Haphtarah. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is haftarah a common word?

haftarah is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for haftarah come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.