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Gaon

Gaon

See also: gaon

English

Noun

Gaon (plural Geonim or Gaons)

  1. (historical, Judaism) A sage of the Talmudic academies of Babylonia.

Quotations

  • 1991, Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy
    The Gaon also was distressed by the veneration the Hasidim accorded their rabbinic leaders, men whom the Gaon generally regarded as ignoramuses.
  • 1996, Roger Friedland, Richard Hecht, To Rule Jerusalem
    Like the hasidim, he too refused the title of rabbi, adopting the ancient title of Gaon.
  • 1997, Moshe Gil, A History of Palestine
    The Gaon also mentions a letter he has received from Ḥasan as-ʻĀqūlī (al-ʻĀqūla, the ancient Aramaic name for Kūfa) undoubtedly one of the emigrants from Iraq to Egypt whom the Gaon knew.

Anagrams

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gaon

See also: Gaon

English

Noun

gaon (plural geonim)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Gaon

Etymology 2

From Hindi गांव (gānv).

Noun

gaon (plural gaons)

  1. (India) A village

Dutch Low Saxon

Verb

gaon

  1. to go

Limburgish

Etymology

From Old Dutch gān, from a fusion of Proto-Germanic *gāną and *ganganą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁-, *ǵʰengʰ-.

Noun

gaon n

  1. going
  2. leaving

Verb

gaon

  1. to go
  2. to leave

Conjugation


Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Adverb

gaon

  1. gladly

Verb

gaon

  1. to give