Jewish

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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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

Terms derived from Jewish

• anti-Jewishness
• ex-Jewish
• Jewish calendar
• Jewishish

• Jewish lightning
• Jewishly
• Jewishness
• Jewish nose

• Jewish piano
• Jewish question
• Jewish tax
• Jewishy

Translations

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

• Albanian: hebré
• Arabic: يَهُودِيّ ‎(yahūdiyy)
• Armenian: հրեական (hy) ‎(hreakan)
• Azeri: yəhudi
• Bashkir: йәһүд ‎(yähüd)
• Belarusian: яўрэ́йскі ‎(jaŭréjski), габрэ́йскі ‎(habréjski), жыдо́ўскі ‎(žydóŭski) (may be pejorative)
• Bengali: ইহুদি ‎(ihudi)
• 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)
• Greek: ιουδαϊκός (el) ‎(ioudaïkós)
• 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)
• Ladino: djudio
• Lao: ຢີວ ‎(yīu)
• Latvian: ebreju
• Lithuanian: žydiškas, žydų
• Macedonian: еврејски ‎(evrejski)
• Malay: Yahudi (ms)
• Maltese: Lhudi
• Norwegian: jødisk (no)
• Persian: یهودی (fa) ‎(yahudi)
• Polish: żydowski (pl) m
• Portuguese: judaico (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 (sw)
• Swedish: judisk (sv)
• Tajik: яҳудиёнӣ ‎(yahudiyonī), яҳудӣ (tg) ‎(yahudī)
• Thai: ยิว ‎(yiw)
• Turkish: yahudı
• Turkmen: ýewreý
• Ukrainian: євре́йський ‎(jevréjsʹkyj), жидо́вський ‎(žydóvsʹkyj)
• Urdu: یہودی ‎(yahudī)
• Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
• Uzbek: yahudiy (uz)
• 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: ^{(please verify)} juif (fr) m
• German: (obsolete) Jüdisch n, Jidisch n, Idisch n, (obsolete) Jüdischdeutsch (de) n, (obsolete) Jüdisch-Deutsch (de) n

• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} ludi
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} єврейський ‎(jevréjs'kyj), (archaic) ^{(please verify)} жидівський ‎(žydívs'kyj)

See also

• Hebrew
• Israeli
• Evrite, Ivrite