הינומא

הֵינוּמָא, הֵינוּמָהf. (נוּם, formed like preced.) slumbering couch, esp. (a popular adaptation of ὑμέναιος) henuma, a curtained litter on which a virgin bride was carried in procession (cmp. Sm. Ant. s. v. Lectica, about κλίνη a. φορεῖον). Keth.II, 1 שיצאת בה׳ that she was carried out of her fathers home in a henuma or with loosened hair; Y. ib. I, 25a top הימונא (corr. acc.). Bab ib. 16b עדיה׳ witnesses testifying to her having been taken out in a h.Ib. 17b מאיה׳ what is henuma? Answ. תנורא דאסא an oven-shaped (frame) draped with myrtles; oth. opin. קלתא דמנמנמא בהוכ׳ (not קריתא דמנמנא, v. Rashbam to B. Bath92b) a curtained couch on which the bride reclines as though slumbering. Y.Keth.II, 26a bot. תמן נמנומאוכ׳ there (in Babylon) they call it namnuma (a slumbering couch), the Rabbis here call it פוריומא q. v.