Jewess

English

Etymology

Jew +‎ -ess

Noun

Jewess (plural Jewesses)

1. (dated) A female Jew.
   • 1920, Winston Churchill, Zionism Versus Bolshevism:

     And the prominent, if not indeed the principal, part in the system of terrorism applied by the Extraordinary Commissions for Combating Counter-Revolution has been taken by Jews, and in some notable cases by Jewesses.

   • 1952, Ivanhoe

     To whom did Ivanhoe tip his lance in gallantry today?
     To a Jewess named Rebecca, daughter of Isaac, the banker of his tribe.
     What could he want of the Jews except money for the ransom?

Synonyms

• Jew (male or non-specific)

Derived terms

• Hassidic Jewess
• Orthodox Jewess
• secular Jewess

 

Related terms

• Jew
• Jewish
• Jewry
• Judaica
• Judaism
• Judea

 

Translations

female Jew

• Arabic: يَهُودِيَّة‎ f (yahūdiyya)
• Belarusian: яўрэ́йка f (jaŭréjka), габрэ́йка f (habréjka), жыдо́ўка f (žydóŭka) (historical, now offensive)
• Bulgarian: евре́йка f (evréjka)
• Catalan: jueva (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 猶太人 (zh), 犹太人 (zh) (Yóutàirén) (gender-neutral)

• Czech: Židovka (cs) f
• Danish: jødinde c
• Dutch: jodin (nl) f
• Esperanto: judino
• Finnish: juutalaisnainen
• French: juive (fr) f
• German: Jüdin (de) f
• Greek: Ιουδαία f (Ioudaía)
• Hebrew: יהודיה‎ f (yehudiyá)
• Hindi: यहूदिनी f (yahūdinī)
• Hungarian: zsidó (hu)
• Italian: giudea f, ebrea (it) f
• Japanese: ユダヤ人 (Yudaya-jin) (gender-neutral)
• Korean: 유대인 (ko) (Yudaein) (gender-neutral), 유태인 (ko) (Yutaein) (gender-neutral)
• Macedonian: Еврејка f (Evrejka)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jødinne (no) m, f

  Nynorsk: jødinne f

• Persian: یهودی‎ (fa) (yahudi) (gender-neutral)
• Polish: Żydówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: judia (pt) f
• Romanian: evreică (ro) f
• Russian: евре́йка (ru) f (jevréjka), жидо́вка (ru) f (židóvka) (historical, now offensive)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Јеврејка f, Жидовка f, Жидкиња f

  Roman: Jevrejka f, Židovka f, Židkinja f

• Slovak: Židovka (sk) f
• Slovene: Jevrejka f, Židinja f, Judinja f
• Spanish: judía (es) f, judiesa f
• Swedish: judinna (sv) c
• Turkish: Musevi (tr) (belief), Yahudi (tr)
• Ukrainian: євре́йка f (jevréjka), жидо́вка f (žydóvka)
• Urdu: یہودنی‎ f (yahūdinī)
• Vietnamese: người Do Thái (vi) (gender-neutral)
• Volapük: jiyudan
• West Frisian: joadinne f

See also

• Hebrew
• Israeli
• Israelite
• Yiddish