parashah

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  A section of a book in the Hebrew text of the Tanakh, which may be open (a petuhah) or closed (a setumah).
 * 2)  One of 54 sections of the Torah read weekly by religious Jews, particularly in the synagogue on the morning of the Jewish Sabbath

Usage notes

 * The most common plural forms are parashiyot and parashot; less common are parashoth and parashiot. Rarely, the plurals parashahs, parashioth, parshioth and parashiyoth may also be found. The Ashkenazi plural forms like parashiyos are also used.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Hebrew:
 * Ladino: parasha
 * Polish: parasza
 * Yiddish: פּרשה