afikomen
English
Alternative forms
- afikoman
Etymology
Borrowed from Yiddish אַפֿיקומן (afikoymen), from Hebrew אֲפִיקוֹמָן ('afikomán).
Noun
afikomen (plural afikomens)
- (Judaism) The matzoh eaten at a Passover seder, after dinner.
- 2008 April 22, Clyde Haberman, “The Unsavory Is No Rarity at City Hall”, in New York Times:
- The Passover Seders that Jews celebrated on the weekend would have been incomplete without the afikomen.
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Translations
matza eaten after seder dinner
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