סביבון
עברית
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
סביבון
- /seviˈvon/ Modern Israeli
Where it comes from
Late 19th century: from סְבִיב (s'viv) + ־וֹן (-ón). It is disputed who coined the word: it was either Coined by Itamar Ben-Avi (the son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda) at the age of five (i.e. 1887), who writes in his memoir that he remembers one day jumping to his mother and telling her that he found a סביבון (s'vivón, “dreidel”), or the writer and journalist David Yeshayahu Silberbusch who published the word in an 1897 list for Ha-Tsefirah.
Many other names were suggested but didn't catch, including כִּרְכָּר by Bialik, חֲזַרְזָר by Mendele Mocher Sforim, סוֹבֶבֶת, פַּרְפָּרָה, מִגְדַּל עֹז, גַּלְגְּלָן and more.
noun סְבִיבוֹן · s'vivón · סְבִיבוֹנִים · סביבון־ · סְבִיבוֹנִי
- A spinning top.
- A Hanukkah dreidel.
In English
- dreidel four-sided spinning top
- spinning top a toy
Talk about this word "סביבון." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/he/%D7%A1%D7%91%D7%99%D7%91%D7%95%D7%9F. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026. סביבון. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 7, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/he/%D7%A1%D7%91%D7%99%D7%91%D7%95%D7%9F "סביבון." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 7, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/he/%D7%A1%D7%91%D7%99%D7%91%D7%95%D7%9F.Cite this
@misc{micwyn_2026,
title = {סביבון},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/he/%D7%A1%D7%91%D7%99%D7%91%D7%95%D7%9F},
urldate = {2026-11-07}
}
