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phonetically: kuhn a hura

zedsalt	Date: July 5, 2008 @ 3:22 AM I'm pretty sure it's Hebrew and has something to do with tempting fate. Can someone here tell me what it means and spell it for me (English alphabet)?
TameasDust	Date: July 6, 2008 @ 12:01 AM dunno
GTOriginal	Date: July 6, 2008 @ 12:27 AM Hakuna Matata aint no passing phase.
SimonWaldram	Date: July 6, 2008 @ 8:47 PM From somebody's blog: http://werejustsayin.blogspot.com/2007/10/it-must-be-kibitka.html "When last I wrote about her I was on my way back from Bainbridge thinking that I would never see her again. She was so weak and fragile. You may recall that a few months ago I asked God to give the mother I knew so well—and had mother –daughter issues with, back to me. Well folks it seems to have happened. I don’t want to give her a ‘kunahura’ that means I don’t want to jinx anything, but she seems to have had, as I just said, a kibitka. The day after we left Jeff and Els moved her into her new apartment. It is in, what is called, a retirement facility, rather than assisted living. And somehow that makes a difference in attitude. Her doctor in NJ as well as all the medical professionals in the rehab, said she would never be able to get out of bed unassisted and she would never be able to get up from a chair and use her walker. Well, once again, the Rose has proved them all wrong. Yesterday she got up from her chair—by herself, and used her walker to get to her closet and change her clothes." That was the only definition I could find for it on the whole web
SimonWaldram	Date: July 6, 2008 @ 8:50 PM I hope the original writer wouldn't get offended if he'd seen me quote him like that, given the what he was writing about and everything
zedsalt	Date: July 7, 2008 @ 4:04 AM I appreciate the effort. I know that there's no "wrong" way, really, to spell a word that didn't originate somewhere/when our current alphabet was in use, but often, after a while, people kind of settle on an English spelling. Now that I stop to think about it, as edifying as it was to learn what a "schlemozzel"* (sp?) is, I never have learned how to spell it. *-Remember the theme to "Laverne and Shirley"? "Schlemiel...schlemozzel...Hassenpheffer (?) Incorporated..." Something like that.
zedsalt	Date: July 10, 2008 @ 3:56 AM O.k., so I found "ayan hora"="evil eye" and "ayin"="eye", so I'm kind of guessing via context that "kuna" might mean "inviting", "bringing forth", something along those lines...
SimonWaldram	Date: July 10, 2008 @ 11:01 AM I would imagine it's something like that. So what sparked the interest in this word?
zedsalt	Date: July 11, 2008 @ 3:36 AM Two things: my buddy Solly's mother took an instant liking to me (I do well with little kids and little old ladies, for some reason), and she would freak out a little whenever I would say that things were going especially well, or suggested that things were going so badly that I didn't see how they could get any worse. "No, bubby! No! You mustn't tempt fate, bubbala!" (There's another one I'd like to get a more accurate spelling/meaning for. The "u" sound is like the "u" in "sugar".) Then just recently, I heard director Barry Sonnenfeld (or was is Sodenberg? I always get those mixed up) talking about not tempting fate, and he referred to trying to not invoke the "kunahura", the "evil eye of God". From the context, I could tell it was exactly what Solly's mom always warned me against.