פּאָרטווײַן

Yiddish

Etymology

Cognate to or borrowed from German Portwein. Compare Polish portwajn, Russian портве́йн (portvéjn). By surface analysis, פּאָרט (port) +‎ ווײַן (vayn).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔrtvaɪ̯n/

Noun

פּאָרטווײַן • (portvayn) m

  1. port, port wine
    Coordinate terms: מאַדיירע (madeyre), מאַרסאַלאַ (marsala), שערי (sheri)

References

  • Schaechter-Viswanath, Gitl, Glasser, Paul (2016) “port (wine)”, in Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, →ISBN
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.