Jewish

English

Etymology

Jew +‎ -ish

Pronunciation

• enPR: jo͞oʹ-ĭsh, IPA: /ˈdʒuː.ɪʃ/, SAMPA: /"dZu:.IS/

Adjective

Jewish (comparative {{{1}}}, superlative {{{2}}})

Positive Jewish

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Superlative {{{2}}}

1. Being a Jew, or relating to Jews, their religion or their culture.
2. Yiddish

Synonyms

• Israelite

Derived terms

• Jewishly
• Jewishness
• Jewish calendar
• Jewish lightning
• Jewish piano

Translations

of or relating to (a) Jew(s)

Albanian: hebré Arabic: يهودي (Yahúdi) Azerbaijani: yəhudi Bosnian: jevrejski m. Bulgarian: еврейски bg(bg) (evrejski) Catalan: jueu Chinese: 猶太的 cmn(cmn), 犹太的 cmn(cmn) (Yóutài de) Croatian: jevrejski m. Czech: židovský cs(cs) m. Dutch: joods [an exceptional non-capitalization], Israëlitisch Esperanto: juda eo(eo) Estonian: juudi Finnish: juutalainen fi(fi) French: juif fr(fr) Georgian: ებრაული (ebrauli) German: jüdisch de(de) Greek: εβραϊκός (evraïkós) Hebrew: יְהוּדִי he(he) (y'hudí) Hindi: यहूदी (yahūdī) Hungarian: zsidó hu(hu) Indonesian: Yahudi id(id) Italian: ebreo it(it) Japanese: ユダヤ人 (ゆだやじん) (Yudaya-jin), ユダヤの (ゆだやの) (Yudaya-no)

Korean: 유태인 (yutae-in) Latvian: ebreju Norwegian: jødisk no(no) Persian: یهودی (yehudi) Polish: żydowski pl(pl) m. Portuguese: judaico pt(pt) Romanian: evreiesc Russian: еврейский ru(ru) (jevréjskij) m. Scottish Gaelic: Iùdhach gd(gd) Serbian: Cyrillic: јеврејски m. Roman: jevrejski m. Slovak: židovský sk(sk) Spanish: judío es(es) Swahili: kiyahudi sw(sw) Swedish: judisk Turkish: yahudı Ukrainian: єврейський uk(uk) (jevréjs’kyj) m. Urdu: یہودی (yahūdī) Uyghur: (kutubim) Vietnamese: người Do thái Welsh: Iddewaidd Yiddish: ייִדיש yi(yi) (yidish)

Yiddish — see Yiddish

Proper noun

Singular Jewish

Plural -

Jewish

1. (informal, dated) The Yiddish language.

Translations

informal term for Yiddish

Czech: jidiš cs(cs) n. Dutch: Joods nl(nl) n. French: juif m.

German: Jiddisch de(de) Maltese: ludi Ukrainian: єврейський (jevréjs'kyj), жидівський (žydívs'kyj) (archaic)

See also

• Hebrew
• Israeli
• Evrite, Ivrite

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