English

Alternative forms

• Shavuos

Proper noun

Shavuot

1. A Jewish holiday that occurs in the spring, a harvest festival, also commemorating the anniversary of the giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses and the Israelites at Mount Sinai.
   • 1971, United States Congress: Senate: Foreign Relations, Public Financing of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty:

     Major Jewish holidays such as Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Simchat Torah, Succoth, Chanukah, Passover and Shavuot have been celebrated with Hebrew prayers and songs.

   • 1975, Israel Zinberg, Old Yiddish Literature from Its Origins to the Haskalah Period:

     On the first day of Shavuot the Ten Commandments were explained to the people homiletically in the vernacular.

Synonyms

• (Jewish holiday): Shavuos, Feast of Weeks, Pentecost

Translations

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Etymology

Borrowing from Hebrew שָׁבוּעוֹת.

Proper noun

Shavuot m

1. (Judaism) Shavuot; Pentecost (Jewish spring festival)