# lehavdil

> English word · Interjection · IPA /ləˈhɑv.dɪl/

## Definitions
1. excuse the comparison
2. 2005, Michael Wex, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, pages 62-3
3. 2005, Michael Wex, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, pages 62-3:
"Gandhi and, lehavdl, Hitler were twentieth-century political figures"; "the cow and, lehavdl, the pig...."

## Etymology
From Yiddish להבֿדיל (lehavd(i)l), from Hebrew לְהַבְדִּיל (l'havdíl), the infinitive of הִבְדִּיל (hivdíl, “to separate, to distinguish”).

## Source
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