Jewess

English

Etymology

Jew +‎ -ess

Noun

Jewess ‎(plural Jewesses)

1. (dated) A female Jew.

Synonyms

• Jew (male or non-specific)

Derived terms

Derived terms

Hassidic Jewess Orthodox Jewess secular Jewess

Related terms

Related terms

Jew Jewish Jewry

Judaica Judaism Judea

Translations

female Jew

• Arabic: يَهُودِيَّة f ‎(yahūdiyya)
• Belarusian: яўрэйка f ‎(jaŭréjka), габрэйка f ‎(habréjka), жыдоўка f ‎(žydóŭka) (historical, now offensive)
• Bulgarian: еврейка f ‎(evréjka)
• Catalan: jueva (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: Židovka (cs) f
• Danish: jødinde c
• Dutch: jodin (nl) f
• French: juive (fr) f
• German: Jüdin (de) f
• Greek: Ιουδαία f ‎(Ioudaía)
• Hebrew: יהודיה f ‎(yehudiyá)
• Hindi: यहूदिनी f ‎(yahūdinī)
• Hungarian: zsidó (hu)
• Italian: 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)
• Turkish: Musevi (tr) (belief), Yahudi (tr)
• Ukrainian: єврейка f ‎(jevréjka), жидовка f ‎(žydóvka)
• Urdu: یہودنی f ‎(yahūdinī)
• Vietnamese: người Do Thái (gender-neutral)
• Volapük: jiyudan
• West Frisian: joadinne f

See also

• Hebrew
• Israeli
• Israelite
• Yiddish