ruach

Alternative Spellings

ruekh, ruah

Definitions

• spirit, "spiritedness, morale" (JPS)

Example Sentences

• "The singing children had a lot of ruach." "We've got ruach, yes we do, we've got ruach, how bout you?"

Who Uses This

Camp, Organizations, Religious

Languages of Origin

Textual Hebrew, Yiddish

Dictionaries

Glinert, JPS, Weiser, Yiddish

Notes

This word originally comes from textual Hebrew, where it meant "wind", but over time came to mean "spirit", "enthusiasm", or "soul" depending on context.