qabbalah

Other forms of qabbalah

plural

qabbalahs·

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.

Questions about qabbalah

What does qabbalah mean?

qabbalah means "an esoteric theosophy of rabbinical origin based on the Hebrew scriptures and developed between the 7th and 18th centuries".

How many syllables are in qabbalah?

qabbalah has 3 syllables: qab-ba-lah. The stress falls on "qab".

What is another word for qabbalah?

Close synonyms include Kabbalah, Kabbala, Kabala, Cabbalah, Cabbala. 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 qabbalah a common word?

qabbalah is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.