יהודית

Hebrew

Pronunciation

Adjective

יְהוּדִית • (y'hudít)

  1. feminine singular indefinite form of יְהוּדִי (y'hudí).

Proper noun

יְהוּדִית • (y'hudít) f

  1. (biblical, obsolete) Hebrew
    • Tanach, Isaiah 36:11, with translation of the New International Version:
      ...דַּבֶּר־נָא אֶל־עֲבָדֶיךָ אֲרָמִית כִּי שֹׁמְעִים אֲנָחְנוּ וְאַל־תְּדַבֵּר עִמָּנוּ יְהוּדִית בְּאׇזְנֵי הָעָם אֲשֶׁר עַל־הַחֹמָה.
      ...daber-ná el-avadékha aramít ki shom'ím anákhnu v'al-t'dabér imánu y'hudít b'ozné ha'ám ashér al-hakhomá.
      ...Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it; don't speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.
  2. Yiddish, Ladino, and any of the Western European Languages mixed with Hebrew words spoken by the Diaspora
  3. a female given name, Yehudit, equivalent to English Judith
  4. (biblical) Judith (the protagonist of the Biblical book of Judith)
  5. (biblical) Judith (a wife of Esau)

Descendants

  • → Ancient Greek: Ιουδίθ (Ioudíth)
  • → English: Yehudit, Yehudis (learned)
  • → Finnish: Jehudit (learned)
  • → German: Jehudit (learned)
  • → Urdu: یہودیت (yahūdīt) (learned)
  • → Yiddish: יהודית (yehudes) (learned)

References

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