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shiva
noun
[ ˈʃiːvə ]
• a period of seven days' formal mourning for the dead, beginning immediately after the funeral.
• "she went to her sister's funeral and sat shiva"
Origin:
from Hebrew šiḇ‘āh ‘seven’.
