shadchan

[ Yiddish, Ashkenazic Hebrew, English shaht-khuh n; Sephardic Hebrew shaht-khahn ]

/ Yiddish, Ashkenazic Hebrew, English ˈʃɑt xən; Sephardic Hebrew ʃɑtˈxɑn /

shadkhan.

Words nearby shadchan

shacky, shad, shadberry, shadbolt, shadbush, shadchan, shaddai, shaddock, shade, shade cloth, shade deck

shadkhan

[ Yiddish, Ashkenazic Hebrew, English shaht-khuh n; Sephardic Hebrew shaht-khahn ]

/ Yiddish, Ashkenazic Hebrew, English ˈʃɑt xən; Sephardic Hebrew ʃɑtˈxɑn /

a person who arranges Jewish marriages; matchmaker.

Yiddish shatkhn < Hebrew shadhkhān, derivative of shiddēkh arrange a marriage

One day, as she was leaving the school-premises, Sugarman the Shadchan accosted her.

Ghetto Tragedies |Israel Zangwill
She joined the enemy—the family and the shadchan—and my mother saw that she was doomed.

The Promised Land |Mary Antin
I can show you a much larger stock than the ordinary Shadchan.'

Ghetto Comedies |Israel Zangwill
"He has all the qualities that you desire," began the Shadchan, in a tone that repudiated the implications of the monosyllable.

Stories By English Authors: London |Various

"Perhaps they won't give a dowry," he thought, with a consolatory sense of outwitting the Shadchan.

The King of Schnorrers |Israel Zangwill

shadchan

/ Yiddish (ˈʃatxən, Hebrew ʃɑdˈxɑn) /

a Jewish marriage broker

from Hebrew shadhkhān, from shiddēkh to arrange a marriage