- 1普珥節（猶太節日）
Purim is a Jewish religious holiday. It celebrates the time, told in the Book of Esther, when Esther saved the Jewish people from being killed by their Persian rulers in the 5th century BC. The name is borrowed from Hebrew and literally means “lots” — in the story, the enemy Haman threw lots (like drawing straws) to pick the day for the killing. On Purim people read that story aloud, often in costume, make a loud noise when Haman’s name is said, give food as gifts, and eat. It usually falls in February or March. It is a joyful, noisy holiday, not a quiet, heavy one. Christians have the same story in the Bible, but Purim itself is a Jewish festival, not a church feast.
組成Borrowed from Hebrew פּוּרִים (purím), literally “lots” (as in drawing lots).
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Purimname/ˈpʊəɹɪm/
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A Jewish festival, celebrated on the fourteenth day of Adar, commemorating the deliverance of the Persian Jews from a complete massacre at the hand of Haman the Amalekite.
- Today, Jews celebrate the holiday of Purim, a festival of revelry that commemorates their deliverance from an ancient genocidal plot. […] Traditionally, a scroll containing that book is read twice over the holiday, with listeners making noise to drown out the name of the story’s villain, Haman, a vizier who manipulated the Persian king into nearly eradicating the Jews.
- This is a regular shul outfit: the denizens of St John’s Wood United Synagogue are well used to their most colourful member looking like he’s going to a Purim party every week of the year.
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A surname.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。