djoven
Ladino
Alternative forms
- djoveno, joven, joveno
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish iouen, from Latin iuvenis.
Pronunciation
Audio (Dallas): (file)
Adjective
djoven (Hebrew spelling ג׳וב׳ין, plural djovenes)[1]
Noun
djoven m (Hebrew spelling ג׳וב׳ין, plural djovenes)[1]
- boy; lad; young man
- Synonyms: chiko, djoveniko, ijiko, mansevo
- Coordinate terms: chika, djovena, djovenika, ijika, manseva
- 1999 May 15, Isaac Jack Lévy, transl., And the World Stood Silent: Sephardic Poetry of the Holocaust, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 50:
- Un djoven, kansado de las muchas orores ke el i su puevlo yevavan de dia en dia a las manos de las bestias umanas, demando kual era la parte ke el Dio tenia en los krimenes i su mankansa de traer djustisia a los kampos i de azer sus deveres para su puevlo: “Tio,” dizia, “porke todas estas orasiones? Porke meldar el kadish para los muertos, el Dio los protejara mas en el paradizo de lo ke izo en la tyerra?”
- A young man, tired of the endless horrors that he and his people endured day in and day out at the hands of human beasts, questioned God’s part in the crimes and His failing to bring justice to the camps and carry out His duties to His people: ‘Uncle,’ he would say. ‘Why all the prayers? Why recite the Kaddish for the dead. Will God protect them more in heaven than He does on earth?’