siddur

/ˈsɪdʊə/

Etymology

From Hebrew סִידּוּר.

siddur means A prayer book containing a set order of daily prayers. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why this word is great

SIDDUR — [Noun] A Jewish prayer book codifying the fixed liturgy for daily and Sabbath services. Its etymology is from Late Hebrew סִידּוּר (siddūr), literally meaning 'order' or 'arrangement'. Unlike the mahzor, which structures the extraordinary time of festivals, or the missal, which follows a temporally shifting ecclesiastical calendar, the siddur is the bedrock of ordinary time, the architecture of the everyday. It is the worn leather softened by a thousand mornings, the whispered cadence in a kitchen at dawn, and the faint, penciled marginalia of a child's first decoding—a tangible testament that the sacred is found not in escape from routine, but in its deliberate consecration.

noun

A prayer book containing a set order of daily prayers.“because of the holy books that occupied their bookshelves instead of encyclopaedia and romances, the torn siddurim they took out to read from on Friday nights”