Yiddish

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Pronunciation

• enPR: yĭd'ĭsh, IPA: /ˈjɪd.ɪʃ/, X-SAMPA: /"jId.IS/

Etymology

Yiddish The etymology of this word is mostly obscure. ייִדיש, from Yidish Daytsh, from Middle High German jüdisch diutsch (“Jewish German”), cognate with German jüdisch (“Jewish”).

Since Jewish Germans (or Yiddish) had to exist before a Yiddish language could be created, the term is probably Middle High German, rather than Yiddish.

Adjective

Yiddish (comparative more Yiddish, superlative most Yiddish)

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

Translations

of or pertaining to the Yiddish language

• Afrikaans: Jiddisj (af)
• Armenian: իդիշ (hy) (idiš)
• Catalan: jiddisch (ca)
• Danish: jiddisch (da)
• Dutch: Jiddisch (nl), Jiddisj (nl)
• French: yiddish (fr)
• German: jiddisch (de)
• Greek: γίντις (el) (yíntis)
• Hebrew: אִידִישָׁאִי (he) (idishai)
• Italian: yiddish (it)

• Persian: ییدیش (fa) (yidiš)
• Polish: jidysz (pl)
• Portuguese: iídiche (pt)
• Russian: идиш (ru) (idiš) m
• Serbo-Croatian: jidiš (sh)
• Swedish: jiddisk (sv), jiddisch- (sv)
• Ukrainian: їдиш (uk) (jidyš)
• Volapük: Yuda-Deutänapükik (vo)
• Yiddish: ייִדיש (yi) (yidish)

Jewish — see Jewish

Noun

Yiddish (uncountable)

1. A West Germanic 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 written in Hebrew characters which is used mainly among Ashkenazic Jews from central and eastern Europe.

Related terms

• Yid
• Yiddishist
• Yiddishism
• Yiddishkeit

Translations

language

• Arabic: يديشية (ar) (yidíyya) f, إيديش (ar) ('idiish) m
• Armenian: իդիշ (hy) (idiš)
• Belarusian: ідыш (be) (ídyš) m
• Bulgarian: идиш (bg) (ídiš) m
• Catalan: jiddisch (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 意第緒語 (cmn), 意第绪语 (cmn) (Yìdìxùyǔ)

• Czech: jidiš (cs) m
• Danish: jiddisch (da) n
• Dutch: Jiddisch (nl) n, Jiddisj (nl) n
• Esperanto: Jido (eo), Jida lingvo (eo)
• Finnish: jiddiš (fi)
• French: yiddish (fr) m
• German: Jiddisch (de) n, Jidisch (de) n, (obsolete) Judendeutsch (de) n, (obsolete) Judenteutsch (de) n
• Greek: γίντις (el) (yíntis) n pl
• Hebrew: יִידִישׁ (he) (yidish), אידיש (he) (idish)
• Hindi: यहूदी (hi) (yahūdī)
• Hungarian: jiddis (hu)
• Italian: yiddish (it) m

• Japanese: イディッシュ語 (ja) (Idisshu-go)
• Korean: 이디시어 (ko) (Idisi-eo)
• Lithuanian: jidiš (lt)
• Norwegian: jiddisch (no), jiddisk (no)
• Persian: ییدیش (fa) (yidiš)
• Polish: jidysz (pl) m
• Romanian: Idiș (ro)
• Russian: идиш (ru) (ídiš) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јидиш (sh) m

  Roman: jidiš (sh) m

• Slovak: jidiš (sk) m
• Slovene: jidiš (sl) m
• Spanish: yidis (es) m
• Swedish: jiddisch (sv) c
• Thai: ภาษายิดดิช (th) (paasăa yítdìt)
• Ukrainian: їдиш (uk) (jídyš) m, ідиш (uk) (ídiš) m
• Vietnamese: tiếng Yiddish (vi)
• Volapük: Yuda-Deutänapük (vo)
• Yiddish: ייִדיש (yi) (yidish) n, מאַמע־לשון (yi) (mame-loshn) n, זשאַרגאָן (yi) (zhargon) m (pejorative)

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Yiddish terms
• ייִד (Yid) m

External links

• ISO 639-1 code yi, ISO 639-3 code yid. The sublects are:

Ethnologue entry for Eastern Yiddish, ydd

Ethnologue entry for Western Yiddish, yih