Shavuot

• Shabuos, Shabuot, Shabuoth, Shavuos, Shavuoth, Shevuoth

Borrowed from Hebrew שָׁבוּעוֹת (shavu'ót).

• Israeli/Sephardic Hebrew influenced:
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ʃɑvuˈoʊt/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ʃævuˈɒt/
• Yiddish/Ashkenazic Hebrew influenced:
  • IPA^(key): /ʃəˈvuːəs/

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.

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

Borrowed from Hebrew שָׁבוּעוֹת.

Shavuot m

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