Elul
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Hebrew אֱלוּל (elúl), from Akkadian 𒌗𒆥 (itieluli, “month of harvest”).
Proper noun
[edit]Elul
- (Judaism) The twelfth month of the civil year and the sixth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Av and before Tishrei.
- 2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 4th Estate (2010), page 142:
- “Twenty-three years ago,” the rebbe says without hesitation. “On the twentieth of Elul. No one in this house has spoken to or seen him since then.”
Translations
[edit]twelfth month in civil year in the Jewish calendar