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Yahrzeit

Yahr·zeit [ yr tst ] (plural Yahr·zeits)


noun 
Definition:
 
anniversary of somebody's death: in Judaism, the anniversary of somebody's death, celebrated by near relatives with the lighting of a memorial candle and the saying of the Kaddish

[Mid-19th century. < Yiddish yortsayt "year's time"]
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