verguensa

Ladino

Alternative forms

  • virgwensa

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish berguença, from Latin verēcundia, from verēcundus (“feeling shame”), from vereor (“to respect, revere, fear”).

Noun

verguensa f (Hebrew spelling ב׳ירגואינסה)[1]

  1. shame (embarrassment)
    • 1940, Gren Rabino David Berman, La boz de Türkiye‎[1], numbers 11–34, page 85:
      Es la Boz del Chofar que nos combida a elevarnos mas arriva de las mesquinerias de la vida de cada dia, de nuestras vanedades pueriles(mesquinas), de nuestras ideas yerradas, siegas y malechoras de la animalidad, que, a nuestra grande verguensa, nosotros tenemos tanta pena a dominar.
      It is the voice of the chofer that invites us to elevate ourselves above the narrow-mindedness of everyday life, of our puerile (and narrow-minded) vanities, of our mistaken ideas, blind and criminal from the beastliness that, to our great shame, we have so much trouble dominating.
  • averguensadamente
  • averguensado
  • averguensante
  • averguensar
  • averguensozo
  • verguensante
  • verguensozamente
  • verguensozo

References

  1. ^ “verguensa”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasure of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim
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