Jewish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: jo͞oʹ-ĭsh
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuː.ɪʃ/
rhymes: -uːɪʃ
Forms: form: Jewisher
form: more Jewish
form: Jewishest
form: most Jewish
form: Jooish
form: Juish
form: juish
Etymology: From Jew + -ish. Compare Middle English Judewissh (“Jewish”), Old English Iūdēisċ (“Jewish”), Dutch joodsch, joods (“Jewish”), German jüdisch (“Jewish”), Danish jødisk (“Jewish”), Swedish judisk (“Jewish”), Gothic 𐌾𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (judaiwisks, “Jewish”). See also Yiddish.
Senses: examples: text: There are many Jewish people in France.
text: Kaplan-Miller said she first joined the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, an interfaith organization that was founded by a Muslim and a Jewish woman in suburban New Jersey, shortly after the 2016 election.
ref: 2023 November 22, Brammhi Balarajan, “US interfaith communities draw on decades-long bonds to navigate Israel-Hamas War”, in CNN:
synonyms: Judaic
antonyms: gentile
goyish
non-Jewish
un-Jewish
hypernyms: Abrahamic
coordinate_terms: Samaritan
glosses: Following the religion of Judaism.
examples: text: I tried some traditional Jewish food yesterday.
text: The notion of blood purity was first elaborated in Europe, where it was used to separate Old Christians from Spain’s New Christians—women and men of Jewish and Muslim origin whose ancestors had converted to Christianity.
ref: 2009, Irene Silverblatt, “Foreword”, in Andrew B. Fisher, Matthew D. O'hara, editors, Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America, page xi:
text: As per the old Jewish joke “ask two Jews, get three opinions”, there’s room on this seven-strong bill (plus [Hannah] Gadsby) for at least that many different perspectives on gender – including some impish scepticism from Canadian comic DeAnne Smith, who complains about “getting they/them’d against my will since 2005”.
ref: 2023 October 13, Brian Logan, “‘We’re all learning’: why Netflix needs Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: heebish
Israelite
Jew
Jewy
kikeish
kikey
Yiddish
antonyms: gentile
goyish
non-Jewish
un-Jewish
hypernyms: Hebraic
Hebrew
coordinate_terms: Samaritan
glosses: Of or relating to Jews, their ethnicities or cultures.
examples: text: "Vanity!" ſays ſhe, haughtily, "What is vanity in you, ſir, is propriety in me. You aſk a Jewiſh price for it, Mr. Graves; but have it I will, if only to ſpite Mr. Eſmond."
ref: 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. […] , volume III, London: […] Smith, Elder, & Company, […], →OCLC, page 155:
glosses: Greedy, miserly.
examples: text: The roots of American Jewry are not in the Middle East but in Europe—their Jewish style, their strong Jewish words, their strong nostalgia, their actual, weighable history, all this issues from their European origins. Grandpa did not hail from Haifa—he was a Jewish humanist, a spiritual, believing Jew, who complained not in an antique tongue called Hebrew but in colorful, rich, vernacular Yiddish.
ref: 1993, Philip Roth, Operation Shylock, page 47:
text: Although I did know that my Jewish name was Yiddish, the rabbi who first taught me Hebrew in the 1960s insisted that we all have Hebrew and not Yiddish names
ref: 2007, Laura Levitt, American Jewish Loss After the Holocaust, page 69:
ref: 2012, Aya Elyada, A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish: Christians and the Jewish Language in Early Modern Germany, Stanford University Press:
glosses: Yiddish.
Derived terms: anti-Jewish
Blewish
Bluish
crypto-Jewish
Jewish Alps
Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Jewish badge
Jewish Bible
Jewish Bolshevism
Jewish calendar
Jewish champagne
Jewish English
Jewish flag
Jewish hereness
Jewishish
Jewish lightning
Jewish Literary Aramaic
Jewishly
Jewishness
Jewish nose
Jewish occupation government
Jewish overdrive
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Jewish penicillin
Jewish piano
Jewish Question
Jewish rye bread
Jewish Science
Jewish Standard Time
Jewish tax
Jewish typewriter
Jewishy
Jewish Zionism
non-Jewish
Orthodox Jewish
pro-Jewish
pseudo-Jewish
quasi-Jewish
semi-Jewish
un-Jewish
unjewish