tzitzit

English

White (Ashkenazi) and blue-and-white (Sephardi) tzitziot

Alternative forms

• tsitsith
• zizit

Etymology

Form the Hebrew צִיצִית.

Noun

tzitzit (plural tzitziot or tzitzis or tzitzith)

1. The knotted fringes of the tallit.

Translations

knots on a tallit

• Arabic: صِيصِيَة (ṣīṣiya), ضِيضِيَة (ḍīḍiya) تِزِيتِزِيت (tizītizīt)
• French: tsitsit (fr), tzitzis, tsitsis
• Hebrew: ציצית (he)
• Persian: صیصیت (sisiyet), ضیضیت (ziziyet), تزیزیت (tezitezit)
• Polish: cicit, cyces
• Russian: ци́цит (ru) (cícit)
• Spanish: tzitzit
• Yiddish: ציצית (tsitsis)