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aliyah¹

  • /ˌɑːliːˈjɑː/
  • /əˈliːjə/

Where it comes from

From Hebrew עלייה / עֲלִיָּה (aliyá, “ascent”).

noun aliyahs · aliyot · aliyoth · aliyos · aliya · 'aliyah

  1. Judaism, countable The calling up of someone to the bimah for the reading of the Torah.
  2. Judaism, countable A subsection of a parashah (weekly Torah reading) read by (or on behalf of) one person.
  3. uncountable The immigration of Jews to Israel. In the past, Yemenite Jews did not have a Bar Mitzvah ceremony at all; they first encountered this ceremony when they made Aliyah to Israel.
  4. countable One of the major waves of immigration of Jews to Israel.

Opposite: yerida, yeridah

verb aliyahs · aliyahing · aliyahed · aliya · 'aliyah

  1. intransitive, rare To make aliyah, to immigrate to Israel. Anti-Semitism is a method of fooling Jews into aliyahing to Israel, the homeland, the sanctuary, in the pretence they will be safe. In the last 50 years how many Jews have died in Israel as a result of anti Jewish attacks....and how many have died in the diaspora?

Aliyah²

Where it comes from

Ultimately from Arabic عَالِيَة (ʕāliya).

proper noun

  1. A female given name from Arabic of modern American usage, a variant of Aaliyah.

Aliyah³

Where it comes from

Ultimately from Hebrew עלייה \ עֲלִיָּה (aliyá, “ascent”)

noun Aliyahs

  1. Alternative letter-case form of aliyah

proper noun

  1. A female given name from Hebrew.

Thesaurus

noun

Opposite: yerida, yeridah

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noun immigration of Jews to Israel

Españolaliyá, aliá
한국어알리야 alliya
日本語アリーヤー arīyā
中文阿利亞 /阿利亚 ālìyǎ
हिन्दीअलिया aliyā
Portuguêsaliyá
Françaisalya
DeutschAlija
Русскийалия́ alijá
العربيةعَلْيَا ʕalyā
עבריתעלייה, עֲלִיָּה aliyá

verb to make aliyah

עבריתעָלָה

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@misc{aliyah_2026,
  title = {aliyah},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/aliyah},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}