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Is Hanukkah a french word

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Hanukkah doesn't originate in French. It is a Hebrew word (see Numbers 7:10 and Nehemiah 12:27); and when it is found in French or other languages, it has been borrowed and transliterated from the Hebrew.

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