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Adar festival
Answer for the clue "Adar festival ", 5 letters:
purim
Alternative clues for the word purim
- Time for hamantaschen
- Jewish holiday when you eat hamantaschen
- Holiday celebrated during the month of Adar
- Holiday in the month of Adar
- Holiday a month before Passover
- Festival in the month of Adar
- Jewish festival also called "Feast of Lots"
- Festival when hamantaschen are eaten
- Jewish festival usually in March
Word definitions for purim in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Jewish festival on the 14th of Adar (in commemoration of the defeat of Haman's plot), late 14c., from Hebrew purim , literally "lots" (plural of pur ), identified with haggoral "the lot" (Esther iii:7, ix:24), perhaps from Akkadian puru "stone, urn," "which ...
Usage examples of purim.
He taught them to eat out-of-doors during Succoth, and of course he taught them to drink themselves to a merry stupor on Purim.