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kinnah

kinnah

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Noun

kinnah (plural kinnot or kinnoth)

  1. (Judaism) Any of the dirges or elegies traditionally recited by Jews on Tisha B'Av to mourn the destruction of both the First and Second Temple in Jerusalem and other tragedies in Jewish history, including the Crusades and the Holocaust.