sukkah

American  

[soo-kah, sook-uh] / suˈkɑ, ˈsʊk ə /

Or succah

noun

Hebrew.

plural

sukkoth, sukkot, sukkos,

plural

sukkahs

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.

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sukkah British  

/ ˈsukə, ˈsukɔ, suˈkɑ /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of sukkah

sukkāh literally, booth

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2024

The holiday of Sukkot, which follows Yom Kippur, is named after the huts, or sukkah, that represent the shelters freed Jews in their 40 years in the wilderness.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 7, 2023

Jewish congregations have scheduled sukkah time slots by pod, and one retreat center offered rentals for one POD, or People of your Own Designation, at a time.

From Slate • Mar. 9, 2021

Indursky and Elon met in 2008, at an acquaintance’s sukkah.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 14, 2019

She told her family that she’d set the sukkah on fire—accidentally, of course—because any excuse she had was better than the truth: that a dragon had done it.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack