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Shavuoth

or ··dz, ··Dz, ··dzٳ, ··dz

[ Sephardic Hebrew shah-voo-awt; Ashkenazic Hebrew shuh-voo-ohs, -uhs ]

noun

Judaism.
  1. a festival, celebrated on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside Israel but only on the sixth day by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel, that commemorates God's giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses.
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Shavuoth1

First recorded in 1890–95, Shavuoth is from the Hebrew word ūʿōٳ literally, weeks

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