Associations to the word «Yiddish»
Noun
- Sigmund
- Belarus
- Spoke
- Zion
- Sami
- Slang
- Judaism
- Boris
- Aviv
- Norwegian
- Persian
- Kiev
- Idiom
- Theatre
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- Literature
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- French
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- Turkic
- Vowel
- Translator
- Burg
- Romania
- Penis
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- Ber
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- Sol
- Israel
- Twentieth
- Der
- Speaker
- Amherst
- Newspaper
- Semantic
- Ukraine
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- Lillian
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- Socialist
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- Workman
- Bulgarian
- Poet
- Suffix
- Rosenberg
- Macedonian
- Latin
- Celia
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- Solomon
- Argentine
- Armenian
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- Grandparent
- Dictionary
- Epstein
- Plural
- Surname
- Fuchs
- Rocker
- Bessie
- Montreal
- Asher
- Esther
- Ami
- Consonant
- Philology
- Writer
Adjective
Wiktionary
YIDDISH, adjective. Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
YIDDISH, adjective. (informal) Jewish.
YIDDISH, noun. 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.
Dictionary definition
YIDDISH, noun. A dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script.
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