English
agunah
Agunah comes from Hebrew עגונה ‘chained woman’.
- Hebrew1880s–presentעגונה‘chained woman’
- Englishearliest quotation 1986agunah
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Hebrew1880s–presentעגונה‘chained woman’
- Englishearliest quotation 1986agunah
Earliest quotation: 1986, Menachem M. Brayer, The Jewish Woman in Rabbinic Literature: “A woman may become an agunah either through her…”
Every English word from Hebrew עגונה
Today it means
noun A Jewish woman who is trapped in a marriage, either because her husband has disappeared or because he will not grant her a gett.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Hebrew עגונה / agunah