ninth of av

Questions about ninth of av

What does ninth of av mean?

ninth of av means "(Judaism) a major fast day on the Jewish calendar commemorating the destruction of the temples in Jerusalem".

What is another word for ninth of av?

Close synonyms include Tishah b'Av, Tishah b'Ab, Tisha b'Av, Tisha b'Ab, Ninth of Ab. 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 ninth of av a common word?

ninth of av 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.