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Complete Definition of "Yiddish"

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Pronunciation
yÄ­d'Ä­sh, /ËjɪdɪÊ/, /<tt>"jIdIS</tt>/

Etymology
Yiddish ××Ö´××ש, from Yidish Daytsh (Jidisch Dajtsch), or Jewish German (also called Judeo-German, Judendeutsch); cognate with the German word jüdisch.

Adjective
Yiddish

  1. Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
  2. colloquial Jewish

Translations
trans-top|of or pertaining to the Yiddish language
Dutch: Jiddisch, Jiddisj
French: yiddish m|f
trans-mid
Hebrew: ××××ש××|×Ö´××Ö´×שָ××Ö´× (idiÅ¡ai)
Italian: yiddish m
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trans-top|Jewish
trans-mid
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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.

Related terms
Yiddishist

Translations

Catalan: Yiddish
Chinese: æç¬¬ç»ªè¯­ (Yìdìxù yÇ)
Czech: jidiš m
Danish: Jiddisch
Dutch: Jiddisch n, Jiddisj n
Esperanto: Jido, Jida lingvo
French: yiddish m
German: Jiddisch, Jidisch
Greek: γίνÏÎ¹Ï (yídis)
mid
Hebrew: ××××ש|×Ö´××Ö´××©× (yidiÅ¡), ××××ש (idiÅ¡)
Italian: yiddish m
Polish: jidysz m
Romanian: IdiÅ
Russian: Ð¸Ð´Ð¸Ñ (ídiÅ¡) m
Swedish: Jiddisch
Yiddish: ××Ö´××ש (yidish)

See also
××Ö´× (Jew|Yid) m

External links
ethnologue|langEastern Yiddish|codeydd
ethnologue|langWestern Yiddish|codeyih

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