Jewish

English

Etymology

From Jew +‎ -ish. Compare Middle English Judewissh (“Jewish”), Old English Iūdēisċ (“Jewish”), Dutch joodsch, joods (“Jewish”), German jüdisch (“Jewish”), Danish jødisk (“Jewish”), Swedish judisk (“Jewish”), Gothic 𐌾𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (judaiwisks, “Jewish”). See also Yiddish.

Pronunciation

• enPR: jo͞oʹ-ĭsh, IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒuː.ɪʃ/

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• Rhymes: -uːɪʃ

Adjective

Jewish (comparative more Jewish, superlative most Jewish)

1. Being a Jew, or relating to Jews, their ethnicity, religion or culture.
   • 2009, Irene Silverblatt, “Foreword”, in Andrew B. Fisher and Matthew D. O'hara, editors, Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America, page xi:

     The notion of blood purity was first elaborated in Europe, where it was used to separate Old Christians from Spain’s New Christians—women and men of Jewish and Muslim origin whose ancestors had converted to Christianity.

2. Yiddish.

Alternative forms

• Juish, juish (humorous or derogatory)

Synonyms

• Israelite

Antonyms

• Gentile

Derived terms

• anti-Jewish
• Bluish
• crypto-Jewish
• Jewishish
• Jewishly
• Jewishness
• Jewishy
• non-Jewish
• pro-Jewish
• pseudo-Jewish
• quasi-Jewish
• semi-Jewish

 

Expressions

• Jewish calendar
• Jewish champagne
• Jewish lightning
• Jewish nose
• Jewish piano
• Jewish Question
• Jewish tax

 

Translations

of or relating to a Jew or Jews, their ethnicity, religion or culture

• Albanian: hebré (sq), çifut (sq)
• Arabic: يَهُودِيّ‎ (ar) (yahūdiyy)
• Armenian: հրեական (hy) (hreakan)
• Azerbaijani: yəhudi
• Bashkir: йәһүд (yähüd)
• Belarusian: яўрэ́йскі (jaŭréjski), габрэ́йскі (habréjski), жыдо́ўскі (žydóŭski) (may be pejorative)
• Bengali: ইহুদি (bn) (ihudi)
• Breton: yuzev (br)
• Bulgarian: евре́йски (bg) (evréjski)
• Burmese: ဂျူး (my) (gyu:)
• Catalan: jueu (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 猶太的／犹太的 (zh) (yóutài de)

• Czech: židovský (cs) m
• Danish: jødisk (da)
• Dutch: joodse (nl)
• Esperanto: juda
• Estonian: juudi
• Finnish: juutalainen (fi)
• French: juif (fr)
• Galician: xudeu (gl), xudaico
• Georgian: ებრაული (ka) (ebrauli)
• German: jüdisch (de)
• Gothic: 𐌾𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (judaiwisks)
• Greek: ιουδαϊκός (el) (ioudaïkós)

  Ancient Greek: Ἰουδαῖος (Ioudaîos)

• Hebrew: יְהוּדִי‎ (he) (y'hudí)
• Hindi: यहूदी (hi) (yahūdī)
• Hungarian: zsidó (hu)
• Icelandic: gyðingaættar
• Indonesian: Yahudi
• Italian: ebreo (it)
• Japanese: ユダヤの (ゆだやの, yudaya no), ユダヤ人の (yudayajin no)
• Kazakh: еврей (evrei)
• Khmer: ជ្វីស (cviih)
• Korean: 유대인의 (ko) (yudaeinui), 히브리의 (hibeuriui)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: cihû (ku) pl or m or f, yehûdî (ku) pl or m or f

• Kyrgyz: еврей (ky) (yevrey), жөөт (jööt), жуу (ky) (juu)
• Ladino: djudio
• Lao: ຢີວ (yīu)
• Latin: iudaeus
• Latvian: ebreju
• Lithuanian: žydiškas, žydų
• Macedonian: еврејски (evrejski)
• Malay: Yahudi (ms)
• Maltese: Lhudi
• Mongolian: еврей (mn) (jevrej), жүүд (mn) (žüüd)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jødisk (no)

  Nynorsk: jødisk

• Old English: Iūdēisċ
• Pashto: يهودي‎ (ps) (yahudí)
• Persian: یهودی‎ (fa) (yahudi)
• Polish: żydowski (pl) m
• Portuguese: judaico (pt), judeu (pt)
• Romanian: evreiesc (ro)
• Russian: евре́йский (ru) (jevréjskij), иуде́йский (ru) (iudéjskij), жидо́вский (ru) (židóvskij) (historical, offensive in modern Russian)
• Scottish Gaelic: Iùdhach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јеврејски, жидовски (Croatia)

  Roman: jevrejski (sh), židovski (sh) (Croatia)

• Slovak: židovský (sk)
• Slovene: judovski (sl), židovski (sl)
• Spanish: judío (es)
• Swahili: Kiyahudi
• Swedish: judisk (sv)
• Tajik: яҳудиёнӣ (yahudiyonī), яҳудӣ (tg) (yahudī)
• Tatar: яһүд (tt) (yahüd)
• Thai: ยิว (th) (yiu)
• Turkish: Musevi (tr), Yahudi (tr)
• Turkmen: ýewreý, ýahudiý (rare)
• Ukrainian: євре́йський (jevréjsʹkyj), іуде́йський (iudéjsʹkyj), юде́йський (judéjsʹkyj)
• Urdu: یہودی‎ (yahudī)
• Uyghur: يەھۇدى‎ (yehudi)
• Uzbek: yahudiy (uz)
• Vietnamese: Do thái
• Volapük: yudanik (vo)
• Welsh: Iddewig (cy)
• Yiddish: ייִדיש‎ (yi) (yidish)

Yiddish — see Yiddish

Noun

Jewish (plural Jewishes)

1. (non-native speakers' English, proscribed) A Jew.
   • 2022 November 26, ArgieSocDem, Twitter‎^[1], archived from the original on 2022-12-09:

     The Statue of Liberty. A French gift with a poem made by a Jewish.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Jewish.

Proper noun

Jewish

1. (informal, proscribed) The Yiddish or Hebrew language.

Translations

informal term for Yiddish — See also translations at Yiddish

• Dutch: Joods (nl) n
• French: ^{(please verify)} juif (fr) m
• German: Jüdisch n (obsolete), Idisch n (obsolete)
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} ludi
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} євре́йський (jevréjsʹkyj), (archaic) ^{(please verify)} жиді́вський (žydívsʹkyj)

See also

• Hebrew
• Israeli
• Israelite
• Evrite, Ivrite