mikveh

• (very common, particularly in UK): mikvah
• (uncommon): mikva, mikve, mikweh, miqveh, miqweh

From Hebrew מִקְוֶה‎ (mikvé, “collection [of water]”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪkfə/, /ˈmɪkvə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪkvə/

mikveh (plural mikvehs or mikveot or mikvos or mikvot or mikvoth)

1. (Judaism) A ritual bath in which various Jewish purifications are performed.
   • 2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage 2007, page 197:

     On the night before her wedding Channa Washinsky would certainly have immersed herself in the ritually cleansing waters of the mikveh.

   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 365:

     Adjacent were the remains of a mikvah bath for the ritual purification of women, and a kosher abattoir for the ritual slaughter of beasts [...].

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