יידיש

See also: ייִדיש

Hebrew

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Proper noun

יִידִּישׁ • (Yīddīsh) f

  1. Yiddish (a West Germanic, or more specifically High German, 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 mostly written in Hebrew characters which is used mainly among Ashkenazic Jews from central and eastern Europe)

Yiddish

Noun

יידיש • (yidish)

  1. (nonstandard) Unpointed form of ייִדיש (yidish).
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