badchenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• badchan, badhan, badkhan, badkhen, badkhn, badkhon

名詞

badchen (plural badchens)

1. (Judaism) A kind of Ashkenazic professional wedding entertainer, poet, and master of ceremonies originating in Eastern Europe.
   • 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 436:

     Already in the first centuries of the Common Era there existed professional badchonim, whose task it was to cheer the sad and to make peace between enemies, an aim indicating the high conception that the badchonim had of their profession.