The Name Balamut or Balamuth

[Lewis R Baratz fiocco@comcast.net]

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Does anyone know the meaning or origin of the Jewish surname Balamut
or Balamuth? Is it related to Malamud?

Thank you.
Lewis Baratz
fio...@comcast.net
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[Thomas Klein tomk@ecologicaltech.com]

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i don't have a definitive answer, if there is such a thing, but the root of MALAMUD
is the word "melamed", which means teacher (usually of children) . it could shift
in pronunciation, but i would guess that BALAMUT, assuming an ashkenazi,
yiddish-speaking environment, would more likely be formed from "ba'al amud" or
"ba'al amot", meaning man of status or means or values.

but that's just my guess.

....... tom klein, toronto

>LEWIS <fio...@comcast.net> wrote:
>Does anyone know the meaning or origin of the Jewish surname Balamut
>or Balamuth? Is it related to Malamud?

[Alexander Sharon a.sharon@shaw.ca]

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Thomas Klein wrote:
i don't have a definitive answer, if there is such a thing, but the root of
MALAMUD is the word "melamed", which means teacher (usually of children) .
it could shift in pronunciation, but i would guess that BALAMUT, assuming an
ashkenazi, yiddish-speaking environment, would more likely be formed from
"ba'al amud" or "ba'al amot", meaning man of status or means or values.

Close enough, Tom.

Balamut in Russian means a troublemaker.

Best,
Alexander Sharon
Calgary, AB

[Reuven Mohr reuven.mohr@gmail.com]

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I think Tom made a good point. But I would translate 'amud' in another way. A baal
amud could be, like baal tefilla, a person who is regularly sent to be the shaliach
tsibur, the one who leads prayers at the synagogue. Amud=the desc/lecturn where
this person has his siddur/prayerbook.

Reuven Mohr, Israel

tom klein <to...@ecologicaltech.com> wrote:
i don't have a definitive answer, if there is such a thing, but the root of MALAMUD
is the word "melamed", which means teacher (usually of children) . it could shift
in pronunciation, but i would guess that BALAMUT, assuming an ashkenazi,
yiddish-speaking environment, would more likely be formed from "ba'al amud" or
"ba'al amot", meaning man of status or means or values.

>LEWIS <fio...@comcast.net> wrote:
>Does anyone know the meaning or origin of the Jewish surname Balamut
>or Balamuth? Is it related to Malamud