sukkah

or suc·cah

[ Sephardic Hebrew soo-kah; Ashkenazic Hebrew, English sook-uh ]

noun

, Hebrew.

, plural suk·koth, suk·kot, suk·kos [soo-, kawt, s, oo, -, kohs], English suk·kahs.

1. a booth or hut roofed with branches, built against or near a house or synagogue and used during the Jewish festival of Sukkoth as a temporary dining or living area.

sukkah

/ ˈsukə; ˈsukɔ; suˈkɑ /

noun

1. a temporary structure with a roof of branches in which orthodox Jews eat and, if possible, sleep during the festival of Sukkoth Also calledtabernacle

Word History and Origins

Origin of sukkah¹

sukkāh literally, booth

Word History and Origins

Origin of sukkah¹

from Hebrew, literally: tabernacle

Example Sentences

Events unfolded differently beginning Monday morning, when pro-Palestinian Jewish and non-Jewish students erected a tent-like structure in observance of the Jewish holiday of Sukkah in an off-limits central campus court.

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Later, an unidentified group tore apart the Sukkah, police issued a dispersal order, and activists voluntarily left the site in the late evening.

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Student protesters erected the sukkah Monday morning to observe the Jewish holiday of Sukkot and demand the university divest from companies that do business with Israel and call for an end to the war in Palestine.

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Hired security guards then removed the sukkah, according to the Bruin.

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The Yucca Valley sukkah of artist Bob Aronson and Lisa Schyck, creator of the self-published book “Glimpses of the Joshua Tree Dream.”

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