different between kiddush vs kaddish

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Hebrew ?????? (kidúsh, “kiddush”, literally “sanctification”).

kiddush (plural kiddushes or kiddushim)

A blessing recited over wine or grape juice in commemoration of the sanctity of the Shabbat or other Jewish holy day.
- 1982, Bernard Malamud, God’s Grace, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, “The Schooltree,”
  Cohn began the seder with a kiddush for wine, and the first two toasts he proposed were the traditional ones to life and to freedom.

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

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

kaddish (plural kaddishes or kaddishim)

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

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