# mezuzah

## Anglais

### Étymologie

    De l’hébreu post-biblique מזוזה, (« poteau de porte »).

### Nom commun

mezuzah \məˈzuːzə\

* (Judaïsme) Mezouza.
   * Slothrop gives him the mandala. He hopes it will work like the mantra that Enzian told him once, mba-kayere (I am passed over), mba-kayere…a spell against Marvy tonight, against Tchitcherine. A mezuzah. Safe passage through a bad night — (Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow, 1973)
   * Lubavitchers, Penansky says, believe mezuzahs need no adornment and simply wrap them in cellophane. — (Florence Hamlish Levinsohn, “A Special Connection With God”, Reader, 2 septembre 1988)
   * When Manny or either of his parents went through their front door they put a finger on their lips and then to the mezuzah on the door frame. — (Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage 2007 ed., page 20, 2006)

## Italien

### Étymologie

    De l’hébreu post-biblique מזוזה, (« poteau de porte »).

### Nom commun

mezuzah

* (Judaïsme) Mezouza.
