English
Yom Kippur War
Yom Kippur + war.
A compound of Yom Kippur + war
Hebrew יוֹם כִּיפּוּר
English Yom Kippur
Proto-Indo-European *wers- ‘to mix up, confuse’
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Medieval Latin werra
Old Northern French werre
Old English werre ‘armed conflict’
Middle English werre
English war
The story
So named because the war broke out on Yom Kippur in 1973.
Today it means
name The fourth war fought in Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights between Israel and an Arabic coalition of states led by Egypt and Syria in October 1973.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Yom Kippur War