Do you know the plural of a Jewish toy called something like "sevivon"?

The plural would be “sevivonim” – pronounced “neem.”

svivon literally means something that goes around (l’sovev) and the common name is dreidel.

It just occurred to me that if it is a feminine word, it would be sevivonot for the plural. I’ll try to lok it up later – on my way to work now.

The dictionary doesn’t indicate so I’ve asked an expert to be sure. Will get back later.

(Boy, a lot of penguins on this thread. Go know!)

My expert confirmed that it is masculine so my first answer stands.

Thanks for researching. The word in the song sounds more like “seVOvoneem”, but I suppose they could be pronouncing it differently. At least I can be reasonably sure that the dreidel thing is what they mean. GAs! :)

There is a legend about the origin of the dreidel that says that it was used to mask Bible study. If a group of Jews were studying the Bible, they kept a dreidel nearby so that if the Greeks burst in and asked, “Are you guys studying the Bible?”, they could answer that they were just gambling with the drieidel.