"zimrah" meaning in English

See zimrah in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: zemirot [plural], zemiroth [plural]
Etymology: From Hebrew זִמְרָה. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|he|זִמְרָה}} Hebrew זִמְרָה Head templates: {{en-noun|zemirot|zemiroth}} zimrah (plural zemirot or zemiroth)
  1. A table song sung at the Shabbat dinner table on Friday night.

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "he",
        "3": "זִמְרָה"
      },
      "expansion": "Hebrew זִמְרָה",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Hebrew זִמְרָה.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "zemirot",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zemiroth",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zemirot",
        "2": "zemiroth"
      },
      "expansion": "zimrah (plural zemirot or zemiroth)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Judaism",
          "orig": "en:Judaism",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Musical genres",
          "orig": "en:Musical genres",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A table song sung at the Shabbat dinner table on Friday night."
      ],
      "id": "en-zimrah-en-noun-x07yYwHw",
      "links": [
        [
          "table song",
          "table song"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "zimrah"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "he",
        "3": "זִמְרָה"
      },
      "expansion": "Hebrew זִמְרָה",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Hebrew זִמְרָה.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "zemirot",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zemiroth",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zemirot",
        "2": "zemiroth"
      },
      "expansion": "zimrah (plural zemirot or zemiroth)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms borrowed from Hebrew",
        "English terms derived from Hebrew",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Judaism",
        "en:Musical genres"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A table song sung at the Shabbat dinner table on Friday night."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "table song",
          "table song"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "zimrah"
}

Download raw JSONL data for zimrah meaning in English (0.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (92124b4 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.