When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Synagogue architecture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synagogue_architecture

    Lille Synagogue, France.An eclectic hybrid with Moorish, Romanesque, classical and Baroque elements, 1892. Synagogue of the Kaifeng Jewish community in China. The ark may be more or less elaborate, even a cabinet not structurally integral to the building or a portable arrangement whereby a Torah is brought into a space temporarily used for worship.

  3. Synagogue - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synagogue

    A synagogue, [a] also called a shul [b] or a temple, [c] is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans. It has a place for prayer (the main sanctuary and sometimes smaller chapels) where Jews attend religious services or special ceremonies such as weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, choir performances, and children's plays.

  4. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_homographs

    Homographs are words with the same spelling but having more than one meaning. Homographs may be pronounced the same (), or they may be pronounced differently (heteronyms, also known as heterophones).

  5. Hebrew cantillation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_cantillation

    In particular, it was necessary to invent a range of different conjunctive accents to show how to introduce and elaborate the main motif in longer phrases. (For example, tevir is preceded by mercha , a short flourish, in shorter phrases but by darga , a more elaborate run of notes, in longer phrases.)

  6. Mosaic - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic

    Mosaic of Menorah from Hammam Lif synagogue, Tunisia, 6th c. Brooklyn Museum. A 5th-century building in Huldah may be a Samaritan synagogue. Its mosaic floor contains typical Jewish symbols (menorah, lulav, etrog) but the inscriptions are Greek. Another Samaritan synagogue with a mosaic floor was located in Bet She'an (excavated in 1960).

  7. CMU Pronouncing Dictionary - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMU_Pronouncing_Dictionary

    This dictionary also supports searching by pronunciation. Some singing voice synthesizer software like CeVIO Creative Studio and Synthesizer V uses modified version of CMU Pronouncing Dictionary for synthesizing English singing voices. Transcriber, a tool for the full text phonetic transcription, uses the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 15.ai, a ...

  8. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Pronunciation

    en.wikipedia.org/.../Pronunciation

    Pronunciation in Wikipedia should be transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), except in the particular cases noted below.. For English pronunciations, broad diaphonemic transcriptions should be used; these are intended to provide a correct interpretation regardless of the reader's accent.

  9. Yemenite Hebrew - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemenite_Hebrew

    Yemenite Jewish elders rehearsing oral lessons (1906–1918) Yemenite Hebrew (Hebrew: עִבְרִית תֵּימָנִית ‎, romanized: ʿĪvrīṯ Tēmŏnīṯ), also referred to as Temani Hebrew, is the pronunciation system for Hebrew traditionally used by Yemenite Jews.