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Where does “קשיא” come from?

קשיא (Yiddish) comes from Aramaic קשיא — rough, hard.

קשיא (Yiddish): legal or religious problem

Definitions

  1. legal or religious problem

Ancestry of “קשיא”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Aramaicקשיאrough, hard
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