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DIBBUK

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: dibbukkim   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Jewish folklore) a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior

Synonyms:

dibbuk; dybbuk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("dibbuk" is a kind of...):

daemon; daimon; demon; devil; fiend (an evil supernatural being)

Domain category:

folklore (the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture)

Judaism (the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud)

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