ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch tonew thesaurus Adj.1.Jewish- of or relating to Jews or their culture or religion; "He is Jewish"; "a Jewish wedding" Judaic Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc. ...
1540–50;Jew+-ish1; compareOld Englishiudēisc<Late Latiniudē(us) Jew +Old English-isc-ish1 Discover More Compare Meanings How doesJewishcompare to similar and commonly confused words? Explore the most common comparisons: goyish vs. Jewish ...
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch to new thesaurus Noun 1. Jap - (offensive slang) offensive term for a person of Japanese descent Nip derogation, disparagement, depreciation - a communication that belittles somebody or something jargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, can...
Jews in the United States use many Hebrew and Yiddish words in their English conversation. To what extent do non-Jews pick up these linguistic markers? This paper explains how Yiddish words have become part of the broader American lexicon through social networks, the media and entertainment, comm...
The Jews of medieval England lived in a multilingual world and created their own multilingual culture. They deployed their spoken language of French (or Anglo-Norman) and their written language of Hebrew with creativity and playfulness, along with knowledge of English and Aramaic. The legal culture...
words. As any attempt to divide thiscontinuum between Jewish English and non-Jewish English would be arbitrary,scholars should include any English-based speech or writing of Jews as appropri-ate for analysis under the umbrella “Jewish English.” Even the most distinctivevariety should be seen as...
For its part, Russia—which has always opposed the introduction of any uranium-derived weapons into the Ukraine conflict, responded with harsh words of censure and warning. “If all this happens,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said, “Russia will have to respond accordingly, given that the...
students, for instance, understood the chant “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” to mean the expulsion and genocide of Israeli Jews. (Most pro-Palestinian students interpret its meaning differently: that Palestinians and Israelis should live side by side in tw...
adjectival word-forming element, Old English -isc "of the nativity or country of," in later use "of the nature or character of," from Proto-Germanic suffix *-iska- (cognates: Old Saxon -isk, Old Frisian -sk, Old Norse -iskr, Swedish and Danish -sk, Dutch -sch, Old High German -...
regional and social variation, structural features, and Hebrew/Aramaic loanwords. The book covers commonly researched language varieties, like Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, and Judeo-Arabic, as well as less commonly researched ones, like Judeo-Tat, Jewish Swedish, and Hebraized Amharic in Israel today. ...