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afikomen

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a⋅fi⋅ko⋅men

[ah-fee-koh-muhn]
–noun Judaism.
a piece of matzo broken off from the center one of the three matzoth set before the leader of a Seder: it is hidden by the leader and later searched for by the children, with the finder, usually the youngest, receiving a reward.

Origin:
1890–95; < Yiddish afikoymen < Heb aphīgōmān < Gk epikmion revel, n. use of neut. of epikmios of a revel, equiv. to epi- epi- + kôm(os) revel + -ios adj. suffix
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