Shoa

See also: Shoá

English

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Shoa

  1. Alternative form of Shewa (“region of Ethiopia”).

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Shoa

  1. Alternative form of Shoah (“the Holocaust”).

Ladino

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew שׁוֹאָה (“disaster”).

Proper noun

Shoa f (Hebrew spelling שואה)[1]

  1. (historical) Shoah (Holocaust)
    Synonym: Olokosto
    • 2005, Aki Yerushalayim‎[1], volumes 26–28, page 57:
      En el 10 de Tevet fue fiksado tambien el kadish jeneral, en memoria de las viktimas de la Shoa ke fueron asasinadas en la II Gerra Mundiala i de los djudios ke fueron matados en pogromes a lo largo de los anyos.
      The general kaddish was also fixed on Tevet 10 in memory of the Shoah’s victims killed in World War II and the Jews killed in pogroms throughout the years.

References

  1. ^ “Shoa”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasure of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim
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