Yiddish

See also: yiddish and yíddish

English

Etymology

Yiddish ייִדיש (yidish), from Yiddish ייִדיש־דוײַטש (yidish-daytsh), cognate with German jüdisch (“Jewish”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: yĭd'ĭsh, IPA^(key): /ˈjɪd.ɪʃ/

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Adjective

Yiddish (comparative more Yiddish, superlative most Yiddish)

1. Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
2. (informal) Jewish; relating to Yiddishkeit.

   Synonym: Jewish

   Yiddish cooking; Yiddish music

Translations

of or pertaining to the Yiddish language

• Afrikaans: Jiddisj (af)
• Armenian: իդիշ (hy) (idiš)
• Basque: Jiddisha
• Catalan: ídix (ca), jiddisch (ca)
• Czech: Jidiš n
• Danish: jiddisch
• Dutch: Jiddisch (nl), Jiddisj (nl)
• Esperanto: jida
• Faroese: jiddiskur
• Finnish: jiddišinkielinen
• French: yiddish (fr)
• Galician: yiddish (gl)
• German: jiddisch (de), judendeutsch, judenteutsch (de), jüdischdeutsch, jüdisch-deutsch, jüdischteutsch, jüdisch-teutsch
• Greek: γίντις (el) (gíntis)
• Hebrew: אִידִישָׁאִי (idishai)
• Icelandic: jiddíska (is)
• Irish: Giúdaise
• Italian: yiddish (it)
• Ladino: idish
• Latin: Judaeo-Germanicus
• Latvian: jidiša
• Lithuanian: Jidiš (lt)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jiddisch (no), jiddisk (no)

  Nynorsk: jiddisch, jiddisk

• Persian: ییدیش (yidiš)
• Polish: jidysz (pl)
• Portuguese: iídiche (pt)
• Romanian: idiș (ro)
• Russian: и́диш (ru) (ídiš)
• Scots: Yiddish
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ји̏диш

  Roman: jȉdiš (sh)

• Swedish: jiddisk (sv), jiddisch-
• Turkish: Yidiş (tr) sg
• Ukrainian: ї́диш (uk) (jídyš), мо́вою ї́диш (móvoju jídyš)
• Welsh: Iddeweg
• Yiddish: ייִדיש (yi) (yidish)

Jewish — see Jewish

Proper noun

Yiddish

1. A West Germanic, or more specifically High German, language that developed from Middle High German dialects, with an admixture of vocabulary from multiple source languages including Hebrew-Aramaic, Romance, Slavic, English, etc., and mostly written in Hebrew characters which is used mainly among Ashkenazic Jews from central and eastern Europe.

   Synonym: Jewish

   Holonym: High German

   Meronyms: Eastern Yiddish, East Yiddish, Western Yiddish, West Yiddish

   • 1983, Philip Baldi, An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages, page 128:

     Yiddish is a High German language [...] two varieties of Yiddish developed [...]

Related terms

• Yid
• Yiddishise
• Yiddishism
• Yiddishist
• Yiddishize
• Yiddishkeit
• Yiddish-like
• Yinglish

 

Translations

language

• Afrikaans: Jiddisj (af)
• Albanian: jidisht m
• Arabic: يِدِيشِيَّة f (yidīšiyya), إِيدِيش m (ʔīdīš)
• Aragonese: yídix m
• Armenian: իդիշ (hy) (idiš)
• Asturian: yídix m
• Azerbaijani: idiş dili, idiş
• Belarusian: і́дыш (be) m (ídyš)
• Bulgarian: и́диш m (ídiš)
• Catalan: ídix (ca) m, jiddisch (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 意第緒語／意第绪语 (zh) (yìdìxùyǔ)

• Cornish:

  Kernowek Standard: Yêdhowek m

• Czech: jidiš (cs) m
• Danish: jiddisch n
• Dutch: Jiddisch (nl) n, Jiddisj (nl) n
• Esperanto: Jido, jida lingvo, jida, Jidiŝo
• Estonian: jidiši
• Faroese: jiddiskt n
• Finnish: jiddiš (fi), juutalaissaksa (fi) (dated)
• French: yiddish (fr) m
• Georgian: იდიში (idiši)
• German: Jiddisch (de) n, Jidisch n, Jüdischdeutsch (de) n (dated), Jüdisch-Deutsch (de) n (obsolete), Judendeutsch (de) n (dated), Judenteutsch (de) n (obsolete)
• Greek: γίντις (el) n pl (gíntis)
• Hebrew: יִידִישׁ (he) ? (yidish), אידיש (he) f (idish)
• Hindi: ^{(please verify)} यहूदी (hi) m (yahūdī), यिडिश (hi) ? (yiḍiś)
• Hungarian: jiddis (hu)
• Indonesian: bahasa Yiddi
• Irish: Giúdais f
• Italian: yiddish (it) m
• Japanese: イディッシュ語 (ja) (Idisshu-go)
• Korean: 이디시어 (ko) (Idisieo)
• Ladino: idish ?
• Latvian: jidišs m
• Lithuanian: jidiš (lt) ?
• Macedonian: ји́диш m (jídiš)
• Malay: bahasa Yiddish
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jiddisch (no) m, jiddisk (no) m

  Nynorsk: jiddisch m, jiddisk m

• Persian: ییدیش (yidiš)
• Polish: jidysz (pl) m
• Portuguese: iídiche (pt) m, ídiche (pt) m
• Romanian: idiș (ro) n
• Russian: и́диш (ru) m (ídiš)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ји̏диш m

  Roman: jȉdiš (sh) m

• Slovak: jidiš m
• Slovene: jidiš m
• Spanish: ídish m, yidis (es) m, yídish (es) m
• Swedish: jiddisch (sv) c
• Thai: ภาษายิดดิช (paasăa yítdìt)
• Turkish: Yidiş (tr), İdiş sg
• Ukrainian: ї́диш (uk) m (jídyš), і́диш (uk) m (ídyš)
• Vietnamese: tiếng Yiddish (vi)
• Welsh: Iddew-Almaeneg m or f, Iddeweg m or f
• Yiddish: ייִדיש (yi) n (yidish), מאַמע־לשון n (mame-loshn), זשאַרגאָן m (zhargon) (pejorative), טײַטש n (taytsh) (dated), ייִדיש־טײַטש n (yidish-taytsh) (dated)

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Yiddish terms

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code yi, ISO 639-3 code yid (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Yiddish, yid ⁠, a macrolanguage including:
  • Ethnologue entry for Eastern Yiddish, ydd ⁠
  • Ethnologue entry for Western Yiddish, yih ⁠