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Hanukkah

Chan (with ‘ch’ as in the ‘ch’ of Scottish ‘loch’) – oo - kah

Chanukah
Explanation

An eight-day festival of lights which celebrates the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem after it had been occupied by foreign forces in 165 BCE.

Context

During the Hanukkah festival candles are progressively lit, day by day, on the eight branch candlestick (with an extra branch) called the Hanukiah.