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October 26, 2015 2:43 am at 2:43 am #616543Letakein GirlParticipant
How is the word agunah pronounced?
October 26, 2015 4:05 am at 4:05 am #1108167Little FroggieParticipantWith sadness (and other negative feelings)…
October 26, 2015 6:22 pm at 6:22 pm #1108168screwdriverdelightParticipantpatach under the ayyin, kumeitz under the nun.
October 26, 2015 6:39 pm at 6:39 pm #1108169zahavasdadParticipantAh – goo – nah
October 26, 2015 7:09 pm at 7:09 pm #1108170The FrumguyParticipantIt is mil’rah with the accent on the nun.
October 26, 2015 9:07 pm at 9:07 pm #1108171akupermaParticipantArguably the word is at the same time a word in Hebrew, Yiddish and English (and will be found in dictionaries of all three languages, albeit with some differences in meaning – in English the term almost always refers to a woman whose husband is refusing to give a get, whereas the original meaning was exclusively to a woman whose husband had vanished). Depending on language, the accent shifts.
October 26, 2015 9:40 pm at 9:40 pm #1108172oomisParticipantEither ah-GOO-nah or ah-goo-NAH would be correct. It depends on whether or not you are speaking Israeli-inflected Hebrew, or regular Ashkenazis.
October 26, 2015 11:55 pm at 11:55 pm #1108173☢️ Rand0m3x 🎲ParticipantIn America, it is often pronounced with a soft U (as in “push”)
and, as mentioned, with the accent on the middle syllable.
October 27, 2015 3:38 am at 3:38 am #1108174Letakein GirlParticipantThank you for the help, everyone!
October 27, 2015 6:15 pm at 6:15 pm #1108175screwdriverdelightParticipantComlink-X, In America words are often mispronounced.
October 28, 2015 2:01 am at 2:01 am #1108176☢️ Rand0m3x 🎲ParticipantI didn’t say that that was the correct pronunciation…
I remember reading once about how confusing it must be for
ba’alei teshuvah to hear about an “OI’heiv yis-RUH-el,”
and be taught to say in Ma’ariv, “oi’HEIV a-MOI Yis-ruh-EIL.”
October 28, 2015 6:43 pm at 6:43 pm #1108177nfgo3MemberUse agunah in a sentence: Agunah have lunch with my bubby on Shabbos.
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