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The Yiddish and Ashkenazic pronunciation of mazel has the stress on the first syllable while the Modern Hebrew word mazal has the stress on the last syllable. Mazel-tov is also used as a personal name. The phrase "mazel tov" is recorded as entering into American English from Yiddish in 1862, [2] pronounced / ˈ m ɑː z əl t ɒ v,-t ɒ f / MAH ...
Mazal tov / Mazel tov: מַזָּל טוֹב good luck/congratulations [maˈzal tov] [ˈmazəl tɔv] Hebrew/Yiddish Used to mean congratulations. Used in Hebrew (mazal tov) or Yiddish. Used on to indicate good luck has occurred, ex. birthday, bar mitzvah, a new job, or an engagement. [1]
Mazel-tov (Yiddish: מזל טוב, Yiddish: mazel tov; Russian title either «Мазлтов» or «Поздравляем», 1889), is a one-act Yiddish-language play by Sholem Aleichem. [1] The play focuses on the relationship between servants, the cook Beyle, and the upstairs rich, the Landlord.
Some Spanish and Portuguese Jews and Sephardim from the Spanish-Moroccan tradition pronounce it as a voiced dental plosive [d] or fricative [ð] (see lenition). Closely related to the Sephardi pronunciation is the Italian pronunciation of Hebrew, which may be regarded as a variant.
Oy vey (Yiddish: אױ װײ) is a Yiddish phrase expressing dismay or exasperation. Also spelled oy vay, oy veh, or oi vey, and often abbreviated to oy, the expression may be translated as "oh, woe!" or "woe is me!" Its Hebrew equivalent is oy vavoy (אוי ואבוי, ój va'avój).
Mazel Paris Alegado may only be nine years old, but she’s already making history. The skateboarding prodigy is the youngest member of the Philippines team at this year’s Asian Games and she ...
The second Rabbis' Sons album contained one of the only two songs they ever released with Yiddish lyrics (Mazel Tov). Tov Lehodos was one of the group's most popular songs. . The liner notes to the album indicate that Baruch Chait had left the group to concentrate on his Talmudic studies at this po
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