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A dreidel ((イディッシュ語:דרײדל) ''dreydl'' plural: ''dreydlekh'',〔''Dreydlekh'' is also a term in klezmer music〕 (ヘブライ語:סביבון) ''sevivon'') is a four-sided spinning top, played with during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. The dreidel is a Jewish variant on the teetotum, a gambling toy found in many European cultures. Each side of the dreidel bears a letter of the Hebrew alphabet: נ (Nun), ג (Gimel), ה (He), ש (Shin), which together form the acronym for "נס גדול היה שם" (Nes Gadol Hayah Sham – "a great miracle happened there"). These letters were originally a mnemonic for the rules of a gambling game played with a dreidel: Nun stands for the Yiddish word ''nisht'' ("nothing"), He stands for ''halb'' ("half"), Gimel for ''gants'' ("all"), and Shin for ''shtel ayn'' ("put in"). In Israel, the fourth side of most dreidels is inscribed with the letter פ (Pei), rendering the acronym, נס גדול היה פה, ''Nes Gadol Hayah Poh''—"A great miracle happened here" referring to the miracle occurring in the Land of Israel. Some stores in Haredi neighborhoods sell the ש dreidels. ==Origins== According to Jewish tradition, when the Jews were in caves learning Torah, hiding from the Seleucids under Antiochus IV, dreidel became a popular game to play. Legend has it that whenever the Jews heard the Seleucid officials approaching, they would hide their Torah scrolls and take out their dreidels instead.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Chanukkah )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=What is a Dreidel? )〕 The game dates from the Medieval period at earliest, since it is a Judaized version of a Germanic teetotum, whose rules were: N = Nichts = nothing; G = Ganz = all; H = Halb = half; and S = Stell ein = put in. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「dreidel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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