anti-Semite

anti-Semite

See also: antisemite and antisémite

English

Etymology

1881, from German Antisemit (coined by Wilhelm Marr in 1879 as a scientific-sounding self-identification), from German antisemitisch (coined by Moritz Steinschneider in 1860), from anti- + semitisch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌæntiˈsɛmaɪt/, (also) /ˌæntaɪ-/, (UK) /ˌæntiˈsiːmaɪt/

Noun

anti-Semite (plural anti-Semites)

1. Someone with anti-Semitic views.

   Antonym: philo-Semite

   Coordinate term: Islamophobe

   • 2014, Tim Carvell; Josh Gondelman; Dan Gurewitch; Jeff Maurer; Ben Silva; Will Tracy; Jill Twiss; Seena Vali; Julie Weiner, “Scottish Independence”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 17, HBO, Warner Bros. Television:

     Aw yes, nothing screams Scottish freedom quite like a millionaire Australian anti-Semite on horseback.

Related terms

• anti-Semitic
• anti-Semitism

Translations

anti-Semite

Arabic: مُعَادٍ لِلسَّامِيَّةِ‎ m (muʿādin li-s-sāmiyyati) Armenian: հակասեմական (hy) (hakasemakan) Belarusian: антысемі́т m (antysjemít), антысемі́тка f (antysjemítka) Catalan: antisemita m or f Chinese: Mandarin: 反猶太／反犹太 (fǎn-Yóutài) (specifically anti-Jewish), 反猶份子／反犹份子 (fǎn-Yóu-fènzǐ) (specifically anti-Jewish) Czech: antisemita (cs) m Danish: antisemit c Dutch: antisemiet (nl) m Esperanto: antisemito Finnish: antisemitisti French: antisémite (fr) m or f Galician: antisemita m or f German: Antisemit (de) m, Antisemitin (de) f, Judenfeind m(specifically anti-Jewish), Judenfeindin f (specifically anti-Jewish) , Judenhasser m, Judenhasserin f Greek: αντισημίτης (el) m (antisimítis) Hebrew: אנטישמי‎ (he) m (antishémi), אנטישמית‎ f (antishémit) Italian: antisemita (it) m or f Japanese: 反ユダヤ主義者 (han-Yudaya-shugisha) (specifically anti-Jewish) Norwegian: Bokmål: antisemitt m, jødehater (no) m Nynorsk: antisemitt m, jødehatar m Polish: antysemita (pl) m, antysemitka (pl) f Portuguese: antissemita (pt) m or f Russian: антисеми́т (ru) m (antisemít), антисеми́тка (ru) f (antisemítka), юдофо́б (ru) m (judofób) (obsolete, specifically anti-Jewish) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: антисѐмӣт m Roman: antisèmīt (sh) m Slovak: antisemita (sk) m, antisemitka f Spanish: antisemita m or f Swedish: antisemit (sv) c Ukrainian: антисемі́т (uk) m (antysemít), антисемі́тка f (antysemítka) Yiddish: אַנטיסעמיט‎ m (antisemit), שׂונא־ישׂראל‎ m (soyne-yisroel)

Further reading

• antisemitism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia