Hanukkah

• The most common form is Hanukkah, followed by Chanukah and Hanukah. Other forms, which are only a fraction as common, include: Hanuka, Chanuka, Chanukka, Chanukkah, Hannuka, Khanuka, Khanukah, Khanike, Chanuko, Channukah, Hannukah, Channuka, Hanukka, Chanuca, and Chanuccah. The forms Hannukka, Channukkah, and Chanucca are very rare.

Originated 1890–95. From Hebrew חנוכה / חֲנֻכָּה (khanuká, “dedication, consecration”) from חָנַךְ (khanákh, “to dedicate, to consecrate”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhæ.nə.kə/, /ˈhʌ.nʊ.kə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑː.nə.kə/, /ˈxɑː.nə.kə/

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Hanukkah (plural Hanukkahs)

2. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish festival, starting on the 25th day of Kislev, which commemorates the rededication of the temple in Jerusalem after the victory of the Maccabees over the Greek Syrians.
   • 2012 December 14, Emanuella Grinberg and Christina Zdanowicz, “Celebrating Chrismukkah: Shalom stockings and Hanukkah bushes”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 December 2013:

     Rebecca and Roni Kopelman have been celebrating Christmas and Hanukkah since they got together in 2006, building the foundations of an interfaith household.

• Feast of Dedication
• Feast of Lights
• Festival of Lights

• hanukkiah

• “Hanukkah”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “Hanukkah”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "Hanukkah" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

• Khanukah

Hanukkah m

1. alternative form of Chanucá

• IPA^(key): /ˈxanuka/ [ˈxa.nu.ka]
• Rhymes: -anuka
• Syllabification: Ha‧nuk‧kah

Hanukkah f

1. alternative form of Janucá