tisha b'av

Questions about tisha b'av

What does tisha b'av mean?

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

What is another word for tisha b'av?

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

tisha b'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.