hanukkiah

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew חֲנֻכִּיָּה (khanukiyá).

Noun

hanukkiah (plural hanukkiahs or hanukkiot or hanukkioth)

1. (Judaism) A nine-branched menorah used during Hanukkah.
   • 2005 December 23, Jonathan Safran Foer, “A Beginner's Guide to Hanukkah”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Some might say that the hanukkiah is decorations, but it isn't; the hanukkiah is a ceremonial object, with specific, non-decorative purposes. Perhaps the Stars of David that many string about are appropriate Jewish decoration?

   • 2010 November 17, Rima Suqi, quoting Daniel Libeskind, “Daniel Libeskind on a New Show of Menorahs”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     As a child of Holocaust survivors, there was nothing, no family relics. The celebration was very modest, with a very small hanukkiah, and my mother was a great maker of latkes. I now luckily have many different kinds of hanukkiahs.

   • [2023 December 7, Jacey Fortin, “For Some, the Symbols of Hanukkah Bring Extra Concern This Year”, in The New York Times‎^[3]:

     The candelabras lit on Hanukkah are technically called hanukkiahs. They have eight candles plus one more, a shamash, that is used for lighting the others.]

Translations

nine-branched candelabrum

• Finnish: hanukia
• German: Chanukkia (de) f
• Hebrew: חֲנֻכִּיָּה (he) f (khanukiyá)
• Polish: chanukija (pl) f
• Russian: ханукия́ f (xanukijá), менора́т Ханука́ m (menorát Xanuká)
• Swedish: chanukkia c, menora (sv) c
• Yiddish: חנוכּה לאָמפּ f (khanike lomp)

See also

• shamash