Yiddish

See also: yiddish and yíddish

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Yiddish ייִדיש (yidish), from Yidish Daytsh, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle High German jüdisch diutsch (“Jewish German”), cognate with German jüdisch (“Jewish”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: yĭd'ĭsh, IPA^(key): /ˈjɪd.ɪʃ/

• Audio (U.S.A.):

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Adjective

Yiddish (comparative more Yiddish, superlative most Yiddish)

1. Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
2. (informal) Jewish.

Synonyms

• Jewish

Translations

of or pertaining to the Yiddish language

• Afrikaans: Jiddisj (af)
• Armenian: իդիշ (hy) (idiš)
• Catalan: jiddisch (ca)
• Czech: Jidiš n
• Danish: jiddisch
• Dutch: Jiddisch (nl), Jiddisj (nl)
• Faroese: jiddiskur
• Finnish: jiddišinkielinen
• French: yiddish (fr)
• Galician: yiddish (gl)
• German: jiddisch (de), judenteutsch (de)
• Greek: γίντις (el) (gíntis)
• Hebrew: אִידִישָׁאִי (idishai)
• Icelandic: jiddíska (is)
• Irish: Giúdaise
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: yiddish (it)
• Ladino: idish
• Lithuanian: Jidiš (lt)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jiddisch (no) m, jiddisk (no) m

• Persian: ییدیش (yidiš)
• Polish: jidysz (pl)
• Portuguese: iídiche (pt)
• Russian: и́диш (ru) (ídiš)
• Scots: Yiddish
• Serbo-Croatian: jidiš (sh), јидиш m
• Swedish: jiddisk (sv), jiddisch-
• Ukrainian: ї́диш (uk) (jídyš)
• Yiddish: ייִדיש (yi) (yidish)

Jewish — see Jewish

Proper noun

Yiddish

1. A West Germanic language that developed from Middle High German dialects, with an admixture of vocabulary from multiple source languages including Hebrew-Aramaic, Romance, Slavic, English, etc., and written in Hebrew characters which is used mainly among Ashkenazic Jews from central and eastern Europe.

Synonyms

• Jewish

Related terms

• Yid
• Yiddishist
• Yiddishism

• Yiddishkeit
• Yinglish

Translations

language

• Afrikaans: Jiddisj (af)
• Albanian: jidisht
• Arabic: يِدِيشِيَّة f (yidīšiyya), إِيدِيش m (ʔīdīš)
• Aragonese: yídix m
• Armenian: իդիշ (hy) (idiš)
• Azerbaijani: idiş dili, idiş
• Belarusian: і́дыш (be) m (ídyš)
• Bulgarian: и́диш m (ídiš)
• Catalan: jiddisch (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 意第緒語／意第绪语 (zh) (yìdìxùyǔ), 意第绪语 (zh) (yìdìxùyǔ)

• Cornish:

  Kernowek Standard: Yêdhowek

• Czech: jidiš (cs) m
• Danish: jiddisch n
• Dutch: Jiddisch (nl) n, Jiddisj (nl) n
• Esperanto: jido, jida lingvo
• Estonian: jidiši
• Faroese: jiddiskt n
• Finnish: jiddiš (fi), juutalaissaksa (fi) (dated)
• French: yiddish (fr) m
• Georgian: იდიში (idiši)
• German: Jiddisch (de) n, Jidisch n, (dated) Jüdischdeutsch (de) n, (obsolete) Jüdisch-Deutsch (de) n,(dated) Judendeutsch (de) n, (obsolete) Judenteutsch (de) n
• Greek: γίντις (el) n pl (gíntis)
• Hebrew: יִידִישׁ (he) (yidish), אידיש (he) (idish)
• Hindi: यहूदी (hi) (yahūdī), यिडिश (hi) (yiḍiś)
• Hungarian: jiddis (hu)
• Indonesian: bahasa Yiddi
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: Giúdais f
• Italian: yiddish (it) m
• Japanese: イディッシュ語 (ja) (Idisshu-go)
• Korean: 이디시어 (Idisieo)
• Ladino: idish
• Latvian: jidišs m
• Lithuanian: jidiš (lt)
• Macedonian: ји́диш m (jídiš)
• Malay: bahasa Yiddish
• Norwegian: jiddisch (no), jiddisk (no)
• Persian: ییدیش (yidiš)
• Polish: jidysz (pl)
• Portuguese: iídiche (pt) m, ídiche m
• Romanian: idiș (ro) n
• Russian: и́диш (ru) m (ídiš)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јидиш m

  Roman: jidiš (sh) m

• Slovak: jidiš m
• Slovene: jidiš m
• Spanish: yidis (es) m
• Swedish: jiddisch (sv) c
• Thai: ภาษายิดดิช (paasăa yítdìt)
• Turkish: Yidiş (tr)
• Ukrainian: ї́диш (uk) m (jídyš), і́диш m (ídyš)
• Vietnamese: tiếng Yiddish (vi)
• Welsh: Iddew-Almaeneg m or f, Iddeweg m or f
• Yiddish: ייִדיש (yi) n (yidish), מאַמע־לשון n (mame-loshn), זשאַרגאָן m (zhargon) (pejorative), טײַטש n (taytsh) (dated), ייִדיש־טײַטש n (yidish-taytsh) (dated)

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Yiddish terms
• ייִד m (yid, “Jew”)

Further reading

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