shibah

Questions about shibah

What does shibah mean?

shibah means "(Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative".

How many syllables are in shibah?

shibah has 2 syllables and divides as shi-bah 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 shibah?

Close synonyms include shiva, shivah. 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 shibah a common word?

shibah 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 shibah come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.