ulpan
noun
ulpan is a noun meaning “An Israeli school where the Hebrew language is taught to new immigrants” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-L-P-A-N, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ulpan is ulpans or ulpanim.
What does ulpan mean?
noun
- 1
An Israeli school where the Hebrew language is taught to new immigrants.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ulpan
- ulpans plural
- ulpanim plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ulpan?
Ulpan appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does ulpan come from?
Borrowed from Hebrew אולפן / אֻלְפָּן (ulpán, “studio”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).