adj
Meaning 1
Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Yiddish
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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yĭd'ĭsh
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/ˈjɪd.ɪʃ/
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CMU ARPABET: Y IH1 D IH0 SH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Jewish; relating to Yiddishkeit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Examples
- Yiddish cooking; Yiddish music
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Jewish
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 3
A West Germanic, or more specifically High German, 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 mostly written in Hebrew characters which is used mainly among Ashkenazic Jews from central and eastern Europe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Jewish
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: German, High German, German language
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Yiddish ייִדיש (yidish), from Middle High German jüdisch (in reference to the language, more fully jüdischdiutsch (literally “Jewish-German”)). By surface analysis, Yid + -ish.
Across languages
Translations
150 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: Jiddisj — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Armenian: իդիշ (idiš) — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Basque: Jiddisha — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Catalan: ídix — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Catalan: jiddisch — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Czech: Jidiš — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Danish: jiddisch — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Dutch: Jiddisch — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Dutch: Jiddisj — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Esperanto: jida — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Faroese: jiddiskur — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Finnish: jiddišinkielinen — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- French: yiddish — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Galician: yiddish — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- German: jiddisch — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- German: judendeutsch — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- German: judenteutsch — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- German: jüdischdeutsch — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- German: jüdisch-deutsch — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- German: jüdischteutsch — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- German: jüdisch-teutsch — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Greek: γίντις (gíntis) — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Hebrew: אִידִישָׁאִי (idishai) — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Hindi: यिद्दी (yiddī) — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Hindi: यिडिश (yiḍiś) — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Icelandic: jiddískur — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Irish: Giúdaise — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Italian: yiddish — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Ladino: idish — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Latin: Judaeo-Germanicus — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Latvian: jidiša — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Lithuanian: Jidiš — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Marathi: यिद्दी (yiddī) — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Marathi: यिडिश (yiḍiś) — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Nepali: यिद्दी (yiddī) — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Nepali: यिडिश (yiḍiś) — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Norwegian Bokmål: jiddisch — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Norwegian Bokmål: jiddisk — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Norwegian Nynorsk: jiddisch — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Norwegian Nynorsk: jiddisk — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Persian: ییدیش (yidiš) — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Polish: jidyszowy — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Portuguese: iídiche — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Punjabi: ਯਿੱਦੀ (yiddī) — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Punjabi: ਯਿਡਿਸ਼ (yiḍiś) — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Romanian: idiș — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Russian: и́диш (ídiš) — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Scots: Yiddish — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Serbo-Croatian: ји̏диш — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Serbo-Croatian: jȉdiš — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Swedish: jiddisk — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Swedish: jiddisch- — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Turkish: Yidiş — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Ukrainian: ї́диш (jídyš) — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Ukrainian: мо́вою ї́диш (móvoju jídyš) — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Urdu: یدی (yiddī) — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Welsh: Iddeweg — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Yiddish: ייִדיש (yidish) — of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
- Afrikaans: Jiddisj — language
- Albanian: jidisht — language
- Arabic: يِدِيشِيَّة (yidīšiyya) — language
- Arabic: إِيدِيش (ʔīdīš) — language
- Arabic: اَليِدِيشِيَّة (al-yidīšiyya) — language
- Aragonese: yídix — language
- Armenian: իդիշ (idiš) — language
- Asturian: yídix — language
- Azerbaijani: idiş dili — language
- Azerbaijani: idiş — language
- Belarusian: і́дыш (ídyš) — language
- Bulgarian: и́диш (ídiš) — language
- Catalan: ídix — language
- Catalan: jiddisch — language
- Chinese Mandarin: 意第緒語 /意第绪语 (yìdìxùyǔ) — language
- Cornish: Yêdhowek — language
- Czech: jidiš — language
- Danish: jiddisch — language
- Dutch: Jiddisch — language
- Dutch: Jiddisj — language
- Esperanto: Jido — language
- Esperanto: jida lingvo — language
- Esperanto: jida — language
- Esperanto: Jidiŝo — language
- Estonian: jidiši — language
- Faroese: jiddiskt — language
- Finnish: jiddiš — language
- Finnish: juutalaissaksa — language
- French: yiddish — language
- Georgian: იდიში (idiši) — language
- German: Jiddisch — language
- German: Jidisch — language
- German: Jüdischdeutsch — language
- German: Jüdisch-Deutsch — language
- German: Judendeutsch — language
- German: Judenteutsch — language
- Greek: γίντις (gíntis) — language
- Hebrew: יִידִישׁ (yidish) — language
- Hebrew: אידיש (idish) — language
- Hindi: यिद्दी (yiddī) — language
- Hindi: यिडिश (yiḍiś) — language
- Hungarian: jiddis — language
- Icelandic: jiddíska — language
- Indonesian: bahasa Yiddi — language
- Irish: Giúdais — language
- Italian: yiddish — language
- Japanese: イディッシュ語 (Idisshu-go) — language
- Korean: 이디시어 (Idisieo) — language
- Ladino: idish — language
- Latvian: jidišs — language
- Lithuanian: ji̇̀diš — language
- Macedonian: ји́диш (jídiš) — language
- Malay: bahasa Yiddish — language
- Marathi: यिद्दी (yiddī) — language
- Marathi: यिडिश (yiḍiś) — language
- Nepali: यिद्दी (yiddī) — language
- Nepali: यिडिश (yiḍiś) — language
- Norwegian Bokmål: jiddisch — language
- Norwegian Bokmål: jiddisk — language
- Norwegian Nynorsk: jiddisch — language
- Norwegian Nynorsk: jiddisk — language
- Persian: ییدیش (yidiš) — language
- Polish: jidysz — language
- Portuguese: iídiche — language
- Portuguese: ídiche — language
- Punjabi: ਯਿੱਦੀ (yiddī) — language
- Punjabi: ਯਿਡਿਸ਼ (yiḍiś) — language
- Romanian: idiș — language
- Russian: и́диш (ídiš) — language
- Serbo-Croatian: ји̏диш — language
- Serbo-Croatian: jȉdiš — language
- Slovak: jidiš — language
- Slovene: jidiš — language
- Spanish: ídish — language
- Spanish: yidis — language
- Spanish: yídish — language
- Swedish: jiddisch — language
- Thai: ภาษายิดดิช (paasăa yítdìt) — language
- Turkish: Yidiş — language
- Turkish: İdiş — language
- Turkish: Yiddiş — language
- Ukrainian: ї́диш (jídyš) — language
- Ukrainian: і́диш (ídyš) — language
- Urdu: یدی (yiddī) — language
- Vietnamese: tiếng Yiddish — language
- Welsh: Iddew-Almaeneg — language
- Welsh: Iddeweg — language
- Yiddish: ייִדיש (yidish) — language
- Yiddish: מאַמע־לשון (mame-loshn) — language
- Yiddish: זשאַרגאָן (zhargon) — language
- Yiddish: טײַטש (taytsh) — language
- Yiddish: ייִדיש־טײַטש (yidish-taytsh) — language
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