English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From Jew -ish 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 [ edit ] Adjective [ edit ] Jewish (comparative more Jewishsuperlative most Jewish
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.
Yiddish .Alternative forms [ edit ] Synonyms [ edit ] Antonyms [ edit ] Derived terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
of or relating to a Jew or Jews, their ethnicity, religion or culture
Albanian: hebré (sq) , çifut (sq)
Arabic: يَهُودِيّ ( yahūdiyy )
Armenian: հրեական (hy) ( hreakan )
Azerbaijani: yəhudi
Bashkir: йәһүд ( yähüd )
Belarusian: яўрэ́йскі ( jaŭréjski ) , габрэ́йскі ( habréjski ) , жыдо́ўскі ( žydóŭski ) ( may be pejorative )
Bengali: ইহুদি ( ihudi )
Breton: yuzev (br)
Bulgarian: евре́йски (bg) ( evréjski )
Burmese: ဂျူး (my) ( gyu: )
Catalan: jueu (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 猶太的 (zh) , 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 ( evrey )
Khmer: ជ្វីស ( cviih )
Korean: 유대인의 (ko) ( yudaeinui ) , 히브리의 ( hibeuriui )
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) ( yevrei ) , жүүд (mn) ( jüüd )
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 )
Urdu: یہودی ( yahudī )
Uyghur: يەھۇدى ( yehudi )
Uzbek: yahudiy (uz)
Vietnamese: Do thái
Volapük: yudanik (vo)
Welsh: Iddewig (cy)
Yiddish: ייִדיש (yi) ( yidish )
Proper noun [ edit ] Jewish
( informal ) The Yiddish or Hebrew language.Translations [ edit ]
informal term for Yiddish
— See also translations at Yiddish
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