amacı belirten söz (parti vb.)

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{i} shibboleth
A common or longstanding belief, custom, or catchphrase associated with a particular group, especially one with little current meaning or truth

It's about time we abandoned the bourgeois shibboleth that earning money makes you a better person.

Any dialect or custom which marks an individual or group as being foreign
an internet2 project to investigate technology to support inter-institutional authentication and authorization for access to web pages
The Ephraimites, not being able to pronounce sh, called the word sibboleth
If you describe an idea or belief as a shibboleth, you mean that it is thought important by a group of people but may be old-fashioned or wrong. It is time to go beyond the shibboleth that conventional forces cannot deter. an old idea, custom, or principle that you think is no longer important or suitable for modern times (used (according to the Bible) by the Gileadite people as a way of recognizing their enemies, who could not pronounce the sh properly)
{i} word or pronunciation used only by members of a specific group or class; word or phrase characteristic of a particular group or ideology
river, or an ear of corn The tribes living on the east of Jordan, separated from their brethren on the west by the deep ravines and the rapid river, gradually came to adopt peculiar customs, and from mixing largely with the Moabites, Ishmaelites, and Ammonites to pronounce certain letters in such a manner as to distinguish them from the other tribes Thus when the Ephraimites from the west invaded Gilead, and were defeated by the Gileadites under the leadership of Jephthah, and tried to escape by the "passages of the Jordan," the Gileadites seized the fords and would allow none to pass who could not pronounce "shibboleth" with a strong aspirate This the fugitives were unable to do They said "sibboleth," as the word was pronounced by the tribes on the west, and thus they were detected (Judg 12: 1-6) Forty-two thousand were thus detected, and
A word which was made the criterion by which to distinguish the Ephraimites from the Gileadites
A common saying or belief with little current meaning or truth
A common or longstanding belief or custom associated with a particular group; truism, platitude
Hence, the criterion, test, or watchword of a party; a party cry or pet phrase
Also in an extended sense
A word, especially seen as a test, to distinguish someone as belonging to a particular nation, class, profession etc
A word or pronunciation used to distinguish outsiders: originates from the incident described in the Bible - Judges 12: 4-6 (see also Zephaniah 3: 8-9)
a manner of speaking that is distinctive of a particular group of people
A slogan, jargon word, or catchphrase closely associated with a particular group and not used very much, or at all, outside of it. Can also apply to ideas, customs, and uses of language
See Judges xii
a word or pronunciation that distinguishes people of one group or class from those of another
a favorite saying of a sect or political group
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