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 𐌾𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (judaiwisks, “Jewish”). 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

• 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)
• Azerbaijani: 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)
• 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)

• Ladino: djudio
• Lao: ຢີວ (yīu)
• Latvian: ebreju
• Lithuanian: žydiškas, žydų
• Macedonian: еврејски (evrejski)
• Malay: Yahudi (ms)
• Maltese: Lhudi
• Norwegian: jødisk (no)
• Old English: Iūdēisċ
• 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 (sw)
• Swedish: judisk (sv)
• Tajik: яҳудиёнӣ (yahudiyonī), яҳудӣ (tg) (yahudī)
• Thai: ยิว (th) (yiu)
• Turkish: Musevi (tr), Yahudi (tr)
• 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 — See also translations at Yiddish

• Dutch: Joods (nl) n
• French: ^{(please verify)} juif (fr) m
• German: (obsolete) Jüdisch n, Idisch n

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

See also

• Hebrew
• Israeli
• Evrite, Ivrite