minyan

[ Sephardic Hebrew meen-yahn; Ashkenazic Hebrew, English min-yuhn ]

noun,plural min·yan·im [Sephardic Hebrew meen-yah-neem; Ashkenazic Hebrew min-yaw-nim], /Sephardic Hebrew min yɑˈnim; Ashkenazic Hebrew mɪnˈyɔ nɪm/, English min·yans.Hebrew.
  1. the number of persons required by Jewish law to be present to conduct a communal religious service, traditionally a minimum of 10 Jewish males over 13 years of age.

  2. such a group.

Origin of minyan

1
minyān literally, number

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Other definitions for Minyan (2 of 2)

Minyan
[ min-yuhn ]

adjective
  1. descended from Minyas.

  2. being or pertaining to a gray, wheel-thrown pottery produced in ancient Greece during the early part of the Helladic period, c2000 b.c.

noun
  1. Minyans. Also Min·yae [min-yee]. /ˈmɪn yi/. the descendants of Minyas who inhabited Orchomenus in Boeotia and Iolcus in Thessaly.

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British Dictionary definitions for minyan

minyan

/ Hebrew (minˈjan, English ˈmɪnjən) /


nounplural minyanim (minjaˈnim) or minyans
  1. the number of persons required by Jewish law to be present for a religious service, namely, at least ten males over thirteen years of age

Origin of minyan

1
literally: number

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