Badchen
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Badchen is a noun meaning (Judaism) A kind of Ashkenazic professional wedding entertainer, poet, and master of ceremonies originating in Eastern Europe.
Meaning
(Judaism) A kind of Ashkenazic professional wedding entertainer, poet, and master of ceremonies originating in Eastern Europe.
Example Sentences
Already in the first centuries of the Common Era there existed professional badchonim, whose task it was to cheer the sad and to make peace between enemies, an aim indicating the high conception that the badchonim had of their profession.
Word Forms
- badchens
- badchan
- badhan
- badkhan
- badkhen
- badkhn
- badkhon
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