Jewish

English

Etymology

Jew +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

Jewish (comparative more Jewish, superlative most Jewish)

1. Being a Jew, or relating to Jews, their ethnicity, religion or culture.
2. Yiddish

Synonyms

• Israelite

Antonyms

• Gentile

Derived terms

• Jewishly
• Jewishness
• Jewish calendar
• Jewish lightning
• Jewish piano

Translations

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

• Albanian: hebré
• Arabic: يهودي (Yahúdi)
• Azeri: yəhudi
• Bulgarian: еврейски (bg) (evrejski)
• Catalan: jueu (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 猶太的, 犹太的 (zh) (Yóutài de)

• Czech: židovský (cs) m
• Danish: jødisk
• Dutch: joods (nl) [an exceptional non-capitalization], Israëlitisch
• Esperanto: juda
• Estonian: juudi
• Finnish: juutalainen (fi)
• French: juif (fr)
• Galician: xudeu, xudaico
• Georgian: ებრაული (ka) (ebrauli)
• German: jüdisch (de)
• Greek: ιουδαϊκός (el) (ioudaïkós)
• Hebrew: יְהוּדִי (he) (y'hudí)
• Hindi: यहूदी (yahūdī)
• Hungarian: zsidó (hu)
• Indonesian: Yahudi
• Italian: ebreo (it)
• Japanese: ユダヤ人 (ゆだやじん, Yudaya-jin), ユダヤの (ゆだやの, Yudaya-no)

• Korean: 유태인 (ko) (yutae-in)
• Latvian: ebreju
• Norwegian: jødisk (no)
• Persian: یهودی (fa) (yehudi)
• Polish: żydowski (pl) m
• Portuguese: judaico (pt)
• Romanian: evreiesc (ro)
• Russian: еврейский (ru) m (jevréjskij)
• Scottish Gaelic: Iùdhach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јеврејски m

  Roman: jevrejski m, (Croatia) židovski m

• Slovak: židovský
• Spanish: judío (es)
• Swahili: kiyahudi (sw)
• Swedish: judisk (sv)
• Turkish: yahudı
• Ukrainian: єврейський m (jevréjs’kyj)
• Urdu: یہودی
• Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: Do Thái
• Volapük: (♂♀) yudanik (vo), (♂) hiyudanik, (♀) jiyudanik
• Welsh: Iddewaidd
• Yiddish: ייִדיש (yi) (yidish)

Yiddish — see Yiddish

Proper noun

Jewish

1. (informal, dated) The Yiddish language.

Translations

informal term for Yiddish

• Czech: jidiš (cs) n
• Dutch: Joods (nl) n
• French: juif (fr) m
• German: (obsolete) Jüdisch n, Jidisch n, Idisch n, (obsolete) Jüdischdeutsch (de) n, (obsolete) Jüdisch-Deutsch (de) n

• Maltese: ludi
• Ukrainian: єврейський (jevréjs'kyj), (archaic) жидівський (žydívs'kyj)

See also

• Hebrew
• Israeli
• Evrite, Ivrite