סביבון

Hebrew

Etymology

Root
ס־ב־ב (s-b-b)
14 terms

Late 19th century: from סְבִיב (s'viv) +‎ ־וֹן (-ón). It is disputed who coined the word: it was either Coined by Itamar Ben-Avi (the son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda) at the age of five (i.e. 1887), who writes in his memoir that he remembers one day jumping to his mother and telling her that he found a סביבון (s'vivón, “dreidel”), or the by writer and journalist David Yeshayahu Silberbusch who published the word in an 1897 list for Ha-Tsefirah.

Many other names were suggested but didn't catch, including כִּרְכָּר by Bialik, חֲזַרְזָר by Mendele Mocher Sforim, סוֹבֶבֶת, פַּרְפָּרָה, מִגְדַּל עֹז, גַּלְגְּלָן and more.

Pronunciation

Noun

סְבִיבוֹן • (s'vivón) m (plural indefinite סְבִיבוֹנִים, singular construct סביבון־)

  1. A spinning top.
  2. A Hanukkah dreidel.

See also

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