Jewish

English

Etymology

From Jew +‎ -ish. Compare Middle English Judewissh (“Jewish”), Old English Iūdēisċ (“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): /ˈd͡ʒuː.ɪʃ/

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• Rhymes: -uːɪʃ

Adjective

Jewish (comparative more Jewish, superlative most Jewish)

1. Being a Jew, or relating to Jews, their ethnicity, religion or culture.
   • 2009, Irene Silverblatt, “Foreword”, in Andrew B. Fisher, Matthew D. O'hara, editors, Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America, page xi:

     The notion of blood purity was first elaborated in Europe, where it was used to separate Old Christians from Spain’s New Christians—women and men of Jewish and Muslim origin whose ancestors had converted to Christianity.

2. Yiddish.

Alternative forms

• Juish, juish (humorous or derogatory)

Synonyms

• Israelite

Antonyms

• Gentile

Derived terms

• anti-Jewish
• Blewish
• Bluish
• crypto-Jewish
• Jewishish
• Jewishly
• Jewishness
• Jewishy
• non-Jewish
• pro-Jewish
• pseudo-Jewish
• quasi-Jewish
• semi-Jewish

 

Expressions

• Jewish calendar
• Jewish champagne
• Jewish flag
• Jewish lightning
• Jewish nose
• Jewish piano
• Jewish Question
• Jewish rye bread
• Jewish Science
• Jewish tax
• Jewish typewriter
• Orthodox Jewish

 

Translations

of or relating to a Jew or Jews, their ethnicity, religion or culture

• Albanian: hebré (sq), çifut (sq)
• Arabic: يَهُودِيّ (ar) (yahūdiyy)
• Armenian: հրեական (hy) (hreakan)
• Azerbaijani: yəhudi
• Bashkir: йәһүд (yəhüd)
• Belarusian: яўрэ́йскі (jaŭréjski), габрэ́йскі (habréjski), жыдо́ўскі (žydóŭski) (may be pejorative)
• Bengali: ইহুদি (bn) (ihudi)
• Breton: yuzev (br)
• Bulgarian: евре́йски (bg) (evréjski)
• Burmese: ဂျူး (my) (gyu:)
• Catalan: jueu (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 猶太的／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 (id)
• Irish: Giúdach
• Italian: ebreo (it)
• Japanese: ユダヤの (ja) (ゆだやの, yudaya no), ユダヤ人の (ユダヤ​じんの, yudayajin no)
• Kazakh: еврей (evrei)
• Khmer: ជ្វីស (cviih)
• Korean: 유대인의 (ko) (yudaein-ui), 히브리의 (hibeuri-ui)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: cihû (ku) pl or m or f, yehûdî (ku) pl or m or f

• Kyrgyz: еврей (ky) (yevrey), жөөт (jööt), жуу (ky) (juu)
• Ladino: djudio
• Lao: ຢີວ (yīu)
• Latin: iūdaeus
• Latvian: ebreju
• Lithuanian: žydiškas, žydų
• Macedonian: еврејски (evrejski)
• Malay: Yahudi (ms)
• Maltese: Lhudi
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: еврей (mn) (jevrej), жүүд (mn) (žüüd)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jødisk (no)

  Nynorsk: jødisk

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: жидовьскъ (židovĭskŭ), июдѣискъ (ijuděiskŭ)

• Old English: Iūdēisċ
• Pashto: يهودي (ps) (yahudí)
• Persian:

  Classical Persian: یَهُودِی (fa) (yahūdī)

  Iranian Persian: یَهودی (fa) (yahudi)

• Polish: żydowski (pl) m
• Portuguese: judaico (pt), judeu (pt)
• Punjabi: ਯਹੂਦੀ (pa) (yahūdī), یَہُودی (pa) (yahūdī)
• Romanian: evreiesc (ro)
• Russian: евре́йский (ru) (jevréjskij), иуде́йский (ru) (iudéjskij), жидо́вский (ru) (židóvskij) (historical, offensive in modern Russian)
• Scottish Gaelic: Iùdhach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јѐврејскӣ, жѝдовскӣ (Croatia)

  Roman: jèvrejskī (sh), žìdovskī (sh) (Croatia)

• Slovak: židovský (sk)
• Slovene: judovski (sl), židovski (sl)
• Spanish: judío (es)
• Swahili: Kiyahudi
• Swedish: judisk (sv)
• Tajik: яҳудиёнӣ (yahudiyonī), яҳудӣ (tg) (yahudī)
• Tatar: яһүд (tt) (yahüd)
• Thai: ยิว (th) (yiu)
• Turkish: Musevi (tr), Yahudi (tr)
• Turkmen: ýewreý, ýahudiý (rare)
• Ukrainian: євре́йський (jevréjsʹkyj), іуде́йський (iudéjsʹkyj), юде́йський (judéjsʹkyj), жиді́вський (žydívsʹkyj) (dated, now usually offensive)
• Urdu: یَہُودی (yahūdī)
• Uyghur: يەھۇدى (yehudi)
• Uzbek: yahudiy (uz)
• Vietnamese: Do thái
• Volapük: yudanik (vo)
• Welsh: Iddewig (cy)
• Yiddish: ייִדיש (yi) (yidish)

Yiddish — see Yiddish

Noun

Jewish (plural Jewishes)

1. (non-native speakers' English, proscribed) A Jew.
   • 2022 November 26, ArgieSocDem, Twitter‎^[1], archived from the original on 2022-12-09:

     The Statue of Liberty. A French gift with a poem made by a Jewish.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Jewish.

Proper noun

Jewish

1. (informal, proscribed) The Yiddish or Hebrew language.
   • quoted in 1947, William Lloyd Warner, Leo Srole, The Social Systems of American Ethnic Groups (page 232)

     I can't speak Jewish; I can't even understand it.

Translations

informal term for Yiddish — see also Yiddish

• Dutch: Joods (nl) n
• French: ^{(please verify)} juif (fr) m
• German: Jüdisch n (obsolete), Idisch n (obsolete)
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} ludi
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} євре́йський (jevréjsʹkyj), (archaic) ^{(please verify)} жиді́вський (žydívsʹkyj)

See also

• Hebrew
• Israeli
• Israelite
• Evrite, Ivrite