mohel

mo·hel

[Sephardic Hebrew maw-hel; Ashkenazic Hebrew moh-heyl, moh-uhl, moi-; English moh-heyl]
noun, plural mo·hal·im [Sephardic Hebrew, Ashkenazic Hebrew maw-hah-leem] . English, mo·hels. Hebrew.
the person who performs the circumcision in the Jewish rite of circumcising a male child on the eighth day after his birth.
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mohel (ˈmɔɛl, mɔɪl) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
Judaism a man qualified to conduct circumcisions
 
[from Hebrew]

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