Pronounced: PAR-vuh-new, noun
Notes: I think I’ve run across this word somewhere, but I cannot imagine it
Yesterday’s word
The word frum means “religious; observant of religious laws”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1800s
Background / Comments
Our word came from the Yiddish word frum, which came from the Middle High German word vrum (pious) — in Modern Gernam, it is fromm.
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