yiddish

Meaning of yiddish

noun
  1. a language used by Jewish people in central and eastern Europe before the Holocaust. It was originally a German dialect with words from Hebrew and several modern languages, and still has some 200,000 speakers, mainly in the US, Israel, and Russia.
    Faigele was mum's name in Yiddish
adjective
  1. relating to Yiddish.
    a Yiddish word

late 19th century: from Yiddish yidish (daytsh) ‘Jewish (German)’.

Information about yiddish

Hyphenation of yiddish

yid-dish

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • yiddish is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

yiddish synonyms

Meaning Yiddish:

Yiddish

Words that rhyme with yiddish

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