Noun: megillah
| Singular | megillah |
| Plural | megillahs; megillot; megilloth |
Sample Sentences
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Song of Songs, one of the five Megillot ("Scrolls") of Ketuvim ("Writings") recited either before or after Minhah on the eve of every Sabbath, after the Seder on Passover, and publicly in the synagogue in the Ashkenazic tradition. [1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 305:]
Nouns inflected like megillah
chavurah,
setumah,
genizah,
Torah,
chuppah,
kehillah,
hanukkiah,
haftorah,
haftarah,
kevutzah,
ketubah,
havurah,
ketubbah,
kvutzah,
mazzebah,
mezuzah,
agunah,
megillah,
chalah,
huppah, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Hebrew מגילה / מְגִלָּה (m'gilá, “scroll”). Doublet of magilla.