cheder

English

Alternative forms

• cheider, cheyder, kheder, kheyder

Etymology

From Yiddish חדר (kheyder), from Hebrew חדר (khéder, “room”).

Noun

cheder (plural cheders or chederim or chedarim or chadarim or chadorim)

1. An elementary school for Jewish children, teaching basic Judaism and Hebrew.
   • 2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage, published 2007, page 51:

     A businessman in New York who happened to be in the Midlands at the time was so impressed by Asher's methods that he was funding him to set up a string of chederim – Sunday schools for Jews – all over the United States.

Translations

school

• Arabic: كُتَّاب (ar) m (kuttāb)
• Esperanto: ĥedero
• German: Cheder (de) m, Chederschule (de) f
• Hebrew: חֶדֶר (he) m (khéder)
• Hungarian: héder
• Polish: cheder (pl) m
• Russian: хе́дер (ru) m (xɛ́dɛr)
• Ukrainian: хе́дер m (xéder)
• Yiddish: חדר m (kheyder)

Anagrams

• cheer'd, reched

Ladin

Noun

cheder m (plural cheders)

1. ambit, scope

Polish

cheder

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew חֶדֶר (khéder).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɛ.dɛr/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɛdɛr
• Syllabification: che‧der
• Homophone: heder

Noun

cheder m inan (related adjective chederowy)

1. (education, Judaism) cheder (elementary school for Jewish children, teaching basic Judaism and Hebrew)

Declension

Declension of cheder

	singular	plural
nominative	cheder	chedery
genitive	chederu	chederów
dative	chederowi	chederom
accusative	cheder	chedery
instrumental	chederem	chederami
locative	chederze	chederach
vocative	chederze	chedery

Further reading

• cheder in Polish dictionaries at PWN