PESAH

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

(Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days from Nissan 15) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt

Synonyms:

Feast of the Unleavened Bread; Passover; Pesach; Pesah

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("Pesah" is a kind of...):

movable feast; moveable feast (a religious holiday that falls on different dates in different years)

Domain category:

Judaism (the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Pesah"):

Pasch; Pascha (the Jewish feast of the Passover)