Dictionaries › English

iddah

Pronunciation: /ˈɪdə/

The English word “iddah” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. The period for which a woman must wait after the death of her spouse, or after a divorce, before she can remarry.

Etymology

From Arabic عِدَّة (ʕidda).

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “iddah” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.