Yiddish

Yiddish

See also: yiddish and yíddish

English

Etymology

Yiddish ייִדיש‎ (yidish), from Yiddish [script needed] (yidish-daytsh), cognate with German jüdisch (“Jewish”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: yĭd'ĭsh, IPA^(key): /ˈjɪd.ɪʃ/

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Adjective

Yiddish (comparative more Yiddish, superlative most Yiddish)

1. Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
2. (informal) Jewish; relating to Yiddishkeit.

   Yiddish cooking; Yiddish music

Synonyms

• (Jewish): Jewish

Translations

of or pertaining to the Yiddish language

Afrikaans: Jiddisj (af) Armenian: իդիշ (hy) (idiš) Catalan: ídix (ca), jiddisch (ca) Czech: Jidiš n Danish: jiddisch Dutch: Jiddisch (nl), Jiddisj (nl) Esperanto: jida Faroese: jiddiskur Finnish: jiddišinkielinen French: yiddish (fr) Galician: yiddish (gl) German: jiddisch (de), judendeutsch, judenteutsch (de), jüdischdeutsch, jüdisch-deutsch, jüdischteutsch, jüdisch-teutsch Greek: γίντις (el) (gíntis) Hebrew: אִידִישָׁאִי‎ (idishai) Icelandic: jiddíska (is) Irish: Giúdaise Italian: yiddish (it) Ladino: idish Latin: Judaeo-Germanicus Lithuanian: Jidiš (lt) Norwegian: Bokmål: jiddisch (no), jiddisk (no) Nynorsk: jiddisch, jiddisk Persian: ییدیش‎ (yidiš) Polish: jidysz (pl) Portuguese: iídiche (pt) Russian: и́диш (ru) (ídiš) Scots: Yiddish Serbo-Croatian: jidiš (sh), јидиш m Swedish: jiddisk (sv), jiddisch- Ukrainian: ї́диш (uk) (jídyš) Yiddish: ייִדיש‎ (yi) (yidish)

Jewish — see Jewish

Proper noun

Yiddish

1. 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.
   • 1983, Philip Baldi, An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages, p. 128:

     Yiddish is a High German language [...] two varieties of Yiddish developed [...]

Synonyms

• Jewish

Meronyms

• Eastern Yiddish, East Yiddish; Western Yiddish, West Yiddish

Holonyms

• High German

Related terms

• Yid
• Yiddishise
• Yiddishism
• Yiddishist
• Yiddishize
• Yiddishkeit
• Yinglish

 

Translations

language

Afrikaans: Jiddisj (af) Albanian: jidisht Arabic: يِدِيشِيَّة‎ f (yidīšiyya), إِيدِيش‎ m (ʾīdīš) Aragonese: yídix m Armenian: իդիշ (hy) (idiš) Asturian: yídix m Azerbaijani: idiş dili, idiş Belarusian: і́дыш (be) m (ídyš) Bulgarian: и́диш m (ídiš) Catalan: ídix (ca) m, jiddisch (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 意第緒語／意第绪语 (zh) (yìdìxùyǔ) Cornish: Kernowek Standard: Yêdhowek Czech: jidiš (cs) m Danish: jiddisch n Dutch: Jiddisch (nl) n, Jiddisj (nl) n Esperanto: Jido, jida lingvo, jida, Jidiŝo Estonian: jidiši Faroese: jiddiskt n Finnish: jiddiš (fi), juutalaissaksa (fi) (dated) French: yiddish (fr) m Georgian: იდიში (idiši) German: Jiddisch (de) n, Jidisch n, Jüdischdeutsch (de) n (dated), Jüdisch-Deutsch (de) n (obsolete), Judendeutsch (de) n (dated), Judenteutsch (de) n (obsolete) Greek: γίντις (el) n pl (gíntis) Hebrew: יִידִישׁ‎ (he) (yidish), אידיש‎ (he) (idish) Hindi: यहूदी (hi) (yahūdī), यिडिश (hi) (yiḍiś) Hungarian: jiddis (hu) Indonesian: bahasa Yiddi Irish: Giúdais f Italian: yiddish (it) m Japanese: イディッシュ語 (ja) (Idisshu-go) Korean: 이디시어 (ko) (Idisieo) Ladino: idish Latvian: jidišs m Lithuanian: jidiš (lt) Macedonian: ји́диш m (jídiš) Malay: bahasa Yiddish Norwegian: Bokmål: jiddisch (no) m, jiddisk (no) m Nynorsk: jiddisch m, jiddisk m Persian: ییدیش‎ (yidiš) Polish: jidysz (pl) Portuguese: iídiche (pt) m, ídiche (pt) m Romanian: idiș (ro) n Russian: и́диш (ru) m (ídiš) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: јидиш m Roman: jidiš (sh) m Slovak: jidiš m Slovene: jidiš m Spanish: yidis (es) m Swedish: jiddisch (sv) c Thai: ภาษายิดดิช (paasăa yítdìt) Turkish: Yidiş (tr) Ukrainian: ї́диш (uk) m (jídyš), і́диш (uk) m (ídyš) Vietnamese: tiếng Yiddish (vi) Welsh: Iddew-Almaeneg m or f, Iddeweg m or f Yiddish: ייִדיש‎ (yi) n (yidish), מאַמע־לשון‎ n (mame-loshn), זשאַרגאָן‎ m (zhargon) (pejorative), טײַטש‎ n (taytsh) (dated), ייִדיש־טײַטש‎ n (yidish-taytsh) (dated)

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Yiddish terms

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code yi, ISO 639-3 code yid (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Yiddish, yid ⁠, a macrolanguage including:
  • Ethnologue entry for Eastern Yiddish, ydd ⁠
  • Ethnologue entry for Western Yiddish, yih ⁠