gentile

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• /ˈd͡ʒɛntaɪl/
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Borrowed from French gentil (“gentile”), from Latin gentīlis (“of or belonging to the same people or nation”), morphologically from gēns (“clan; tribe; people, family”) + adjective suffix -īlis (“-ile”). Doublet of gentle, genteel, jaunty, and Gentoo. See also gens, gender, genus, and generation.

From French gentil (“gentile”), from Latin gentīlis (“of or belonging to the same people or nation”), from gēns (“clan, tribe”) + adjective suffix -īlis (“-ile”).

69 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Aghwan: 𐕆𐔴𐔸𐔰𐕎𐕒𐕚 (hetanos) — non-Jewish
• Arabic: أُمِّي (ʔummī) — non-Jewish
• Bulgarian: нееврейски (neevrejski) — non-Jewish
• Chinese Cantonese: 外邦 (ngoi6 bong1) — non-Jewish
• Hakka Chinese: 外邦 (ngoi-pâng) — non-Jewish
• Chinese: 外邦 (gōa-pang) — non-Jewish
• Chinese Mandarin: 非犹太人的 — non-Jewish
• Chinese Mandarin: 外邦 (wàibāng) — non-Jewish
• Dutch: niet-Joods — non-Jewish
• Esperanto: nejuda — non-Jewish
• Esperanto: goja — non-Jewish
• Finnish: ei-juutalainen — non-Jewish
• French: gentil — non-Jewish
• Galician: xentil — non-Jewish
• German: nichtjüdisch — non-Jewish
• German: heidnisch — non-Jewish
• Greek: εθνικός (ethnikós) — non-Jewish
• Hebrew: גוי — non-Jewish
• Hindi: अन्यजाति (anyajāti) — non-Jewish
• Interlingua: gentil — non-Jewish
• Italian: gentile — non-Jewish
• Polish: goj — non-Jewish
• Portuguese: gentio — non-Jewish
• Russian: неевре́й (nejevréj) — non-Jewish
• Russian: гой (goj) — non-Jewish
• Spanish: gentil — non-Jewish
• Swedish: hednisk — non-Jewish
• Tagalog: hentil — non-Jewish
• Yiddish: גוייִש (goyish) — non-Jewish
• Yiddish: נישט־ייִדיש (nisht-yidish) — non-Jewish
• Yiddish: אומות־העולמדיק (umes-hoóylemdik) — non-Jewish
• Aghwan: 𐕆𐔴𐔸𐔰𐕎𐕒𐕚 (hetanos) — heathen, pagan
• Bulgarian: друговерски (drugoverski) — heathen, pagan
• Chinese Mandarin: 异教徒 (yìjiàotú) — heathen, pagan
• Danish: hedensk — heathen, pagan
• Dutch: heidens — heathen, pagan
• German: heidnisch — heathen, pagan
• Interlingua: pagan — heathen, pagan
• Polish: pogański — heathen, pagan
• Portuguese: gentio — heathen, pagan
• Romanian: păgân — heathen, pagan
• Russian: язы́чник (jazýčnik) — heathen, pagan
• Spanish: pagano — heathen, pagan
• Yiddish: געצן־⁠דינעריש — heathen, pagan
• Yiddish: פּאַגאַניש (paganish) — heathen, pagan
• Yiddish: עבודה־זרהדיק (avoyde-zoredik) — heathen, pagan
• Polish: plemienny — relating to a clan, tribe, or nation
• Chinese Cantonese: 外邦人 (ngoi6 bong1 jan4) — non-Jewish person
• Chinese Mandarin: 外邦人 (wàipāngrén) — non-Jewish person
• Dutch: goj — non-Jewish person
• Esperanto: nejudo — non-Jewish person
• Esperanto: gojo — non-Jewish person
• French: gentil — non-Jewish person
• German: Goj — non-Jewish person
• German: Nichtjude — non-Jewish person
• German: Nichtjüdin — non-Jewish person
• German: Heide — non-Jewish person
• German: Heidin — non-Jewish person
• Hindi: अन्यजाति (anyajāti) — non-Jewish person
• Interlingua: gentil — non-Jewish person
• Latin: gēns — non-Jewish person
• Māori: tauiwi — non-Jewish person
• Polish: goj — non-Jewish person
• Russian: гой (goj) — non-Jewish person
• Spanish: gentil — non-Jewish person
• Ukrainian: гой (hoj) — non-Jewish person
• Yiddish: גוי (goy) — non-Jewish person
• Yiddish: נישט־ייִד (nisht-yid) — non-Jewish person
• German: Gentile — kind of noun