noun
Meaning 1
A female Jew.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, humorous
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: Jew
Standard Lemma guide
Jewess
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈd͡ʒuː.ɛs/
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noun
Meaning 2
a woman who is a Jew
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: Jew, Hebrew, Israelite
Narrower terms: Lot's wife, Esther, Jezebel, Mary, Virgin Mary, The Virgin, Blessed Virgin, Madonna
History
Etymology
From Middle English Jewesse, from Old French juiesse, juise; equivalent to Jew + -ess.
Across languages
Translations
66 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: يَهُودِيَّة (yahūdiyya) — female Jew
- Belarusian: яўрэ́йка (jawréjka) — female Jew
- Belarusian: габрэ́йка (habréjka) — female Jew
- Belarusian: жыдо́ўка (žydówka) — female Jew
- Bulgarian: евре́йка (evréjka) — female Jew
- Catalan: jueva — female Jew
- Chinese Mandarin: 猶太人 /犹太人 (yóutàirén) — female Jew
- Czech: Židovka — female Jew
- Danish: jødinde — female Jew
- Dutch: jodin — female Jew
- Esperanto: judino — female Jew
- Estonian: juuditar — female Jew
- Finnish: juutalaisnainen — female Jew
- French: Juive — female Jew
- French: juive — female Jew
- West-Frisian: joadinne — female Jew
- Georgian: ებრაელი ქალი (ebraeli kali) — female Jew
- German: Jüdin — female Jew
- Greek: Ιουδαία (Ioudaía) — female Jew
- Hebrew: יהודיה \ יְהוּדִיָּה (yehudiyá) — female Jew
- Hindi: यहूदिनी (yahūdinī) — female Jew
- Hungarian: zsidó — female Jew
- Ido: Judino — female Jew
- Interlingua: judea — female Jew
- Italian: giudea — female Jew
- Italian: ebrea — female Jew
- Japanese: ユダヤ人 (yudayajin) — female Jew
- Korean: 유대인 (yudaein) — female Jew
- Korean: 유태인 (yutaein) — female Jew
- Ladino: djudia — female Jew
- Latin: iūdaea — female Jew
- Latvian: ebrejs — female Jew
- Macedonian: Еврејка (Evrejka) — female Jew
- Middle English: Jewesse — female Jew
- Norwegian Bokmål: jødinne — female Jew
- Norwegian Nynorsk: jødinne — female Jew
- Persian: یهودی (yahudi) — female Jew
- Polish: Żydówka — female Jew
- Portuguese: judia — female Jew
- Romanian: evreică — female Jew
- Russian: евре́йка (jevréjka) — female Jew
- Russian: жидо́вка (židóvka) — female Jew
- Serbo-Croatian: Јеврејка — female Jew
- Serbo-Croatian: Жидовка — female Jew
- Serbo-Croatian: Жидкиња — female Jew
- Serbo-Croatian: Jevrejka — female Jew
- Serbo-Croatian: Židovka — female Jew
- Serbo-Croatian: Židkinja — female Jew
- Slovak: Židovka — female Jew
- Slovene: Jevrejka — female Jew
- Slovene: Židinja — female Jew
- Slovene: Judinja — female Jew
- Spanish: judía — female Jew
- Swedish: judinna — female Jew
- Turkish: Musevi — female Jew
- Turkish: Yahudi — female Jew
- Ukrainian: євре́йка (jevréjka) — female Jew
- Ukrainian: жидо́вка (žydóvka) — female Jew
- Urdu: یہودنی (yahūdinī) — female Jew
- Vietnamese: người Do Thái — female Jew
- Volapük: jiyudan — female Jew
- Welsh: Iddewes — female Jew
- Yiddish: ייִדישקע (yidishke) — female Jew
- Yiddish: ייִדיש־קינד (yidish-kind) — female Jew
- Yiddish: בת־ישׂראל (bas-yisroel) — female Jew
- Yiddish: ייִדישע טאָכטער (yidishe tokhter) — female Jew