different between kaddish vs saddish

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew ????????? (kadish, “kaddish”), from Aramaic ????????? (qadd?š, “holy; holy person”).

The plural form kaddishim is borrowed from Hebrew ??????????? (kadishim).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæd??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?d??/
• Rhymes: -æd??
• Hyphenation: kad?dish

Noun

kaddish (plural kaddishes or kaddishim)

1. (Judaism) A Jewish prayer of praise to God recited during services, and specifically when mourning the death of a close relative.

Alternative forms

• Kaddish
• qaddish

Translations

Further reading

Further reading

• kaddish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

sad +? -ish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æd??

Adjective

saddish (comparative more saddish, superlative most saddish)

1. (informal) Somewhat sad.
   • 1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter XX,^[1]

     He set up a little piece of poetry, which he made, himself, out of his own head—three verses—kind of sweet and saddish—the name of it was, "Yes, crush, cold world, this breaking heart"—and he left that all set up and ready to print in the paper, and didn't charge nothing for it.

   • 1903, George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son (page 46)

     At the church sociables he used to hop around among them, chipping and chirping like a dicky-bird picking up seed; and he was a great hand to play the piano, and sing saddish, sweetish songs to them.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 1,^[2]

     […] for these when not actively employed were sometimes […] apt to fall into a saddish mood which in some partook of sullenness.

Anagrams

• siddhas