shul

English

Etymology

From Yiddish שול (shul, “school, synagogue”), from Old High German scuola (“school”), from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ). Doublet of school.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃuːl/, /ʃʊl/

Noun

shul (plural shuls)

1. The synagogue.
   • 2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage 2007, p. 146:

     That Asher's mind would have also been on Elohim, at this moment receiving prayers in Asher's shul, goes without saying.

   • 2019 September 6, Jordan Weissman, “How Not to Fight Anti-Semitism”, in Slate‎^[1]:

     Unfortunately, she has used the attack as a launch pad for a bizarre and undercooked exercise in rhetorical bothsidesism, in which she argues that American Jews should be just as worried about college students who overzealously criticize Israel as they are about the aspiring Einsatzgruppen who shoot up shuls.

Anagrams

• Lush, Uhls, Ulsh, lush

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Albanian

Etymology 1

From South Slavic; compare Serbo-Croatian šȗlj (“block of wood”).

Noun

shul m (plural shule, definite shuli, definite plural shulet)

1. wooden pole
2. gate bar, door bolt
3. gun bolt
4. roller bar (of loom)
5. (nautical) boatmast
6. (architecture) tie beam

Declension

Declension of shul

	indefinite		definite
	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	shul	shule	shuli	shulet
accusative			shulin
dative	shuli	shuleve	shulit	shuleve
ablative		shulesh

Related terms

• shilor

Etymology 2

From sh- +‎ ul.

Adverb

shul

1. one-sided, crooked

Related terms

• ul

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Spanish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Yiddish שול (shul).

Noun

shul m (plural shules)

1. (Judaism) shul, synagogue