Jewish

English

Etymology

Jew +‎ -ish

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

Jewish (comparative more Jewish, superlative most Jewish)

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) (evrejski) Catalan: jueu Chinese: 猶太的 (cmn), 犹太的 (cmn) (Yóutài de) Croatian: židovski m. Czech: židovský (cs) m. Danish: jødisk (da) Dutch: joods [an exceptional non-capitalization], Israëlitisch Esperanto: juda (eo) Estonian: juudi Finnish: juutalainen (fi) French: juif (fr) Georgian: ებრაული (ebrauli) German: jüdisch (de) Greek: ιουδαϊκός (el) (iudhaïκόs) Hebrew: יְהוּדִי (he) (y'hudí) Hindi: यहूदी (yahūdī) Hungarian: zsidó (hu) Indonesian: Yahudi (id) Italian: ebreo (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) Persian: یهودی (yehudi) Polish: żydowski (pl) m. Portuguese: judaico (pt) Romanian: evreiesc Russian: еврейский (ru) (jevréjskij) m. Scottish Gaelic: Iùdhach (gd) Serbian: Cyrillic: јеврејски m. Roman: jevrejski m. Slovak: židovský (sk) Spanish: judío (es) Swahili: kiyahudi (sw) Swedish: judisk (sv) Turkish: yahudı Ukrainian: єврейський (uk) (jevréjs’kyj) m. Urdu: یہودی (yahūdī) Uyghur: (kutubim) Vietnamese: người Do thái Volapük: (male or female) yudanik (vo), (male) hiyudanik (vo), (female) jiyudanik (vo) Welsh: Iddewaidd Yiddish: ייִדיש (yi) (yidish)

Yiddish — see Yiddish

Proper noun

Jewish

1. (informal, dated) The Yiddish language.

Translations

informal term for Yiddish

Czech: jidiš (cs) n. Dutch: Joods (nl) n. French: juif m. German: (obsolete) Jüdisch (de) n., Jidisch (de) n., Idisch (de) n., (obsolete) Jüdischdeutsch (de) n., (obsolete) Jüdisch-Deutsch (de) n.

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

See also

• Hebrew
• Israeli
• Evrite, Ivrite