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Yiddish
Yiddish is the "Patois" of languages of every eastern European country with any significant Jewish population during the past 600 years. Dormant for a while after the great Jewish migrations of the early 20th Century and the mass exterminations of the 1930s and 40s, it's experiencing a resurgence today.
879 Questions
What is the English translation of the Yiddish name Ita?
Ita: "Thirsty" - also, a corrupt form Yiddish for of Yehudit (Judith)
Yehudit: "Praise"
How do you say merry Christmas in yiddish?
No one who speaks Yiddish would ever say this. There is a Yiddish word for Christmas (Nittl) but many Yiddish speakers wouldn't recognize this word, since Christmas is not celebrated by Jews.
How do you say good friend in Yiddish?
In Yiddish, "good friend" is expressed as " גוטער חבר" (guter khaver). The word "גוטער" (guter) means "good," and "חבר" (khaver) means "friend." This phrase conveys a sense of camaraderie and warmth, reflecting the close-knit relationships often valued in Yiddish culture.
What word do you use in yiddish for a good deed for a person?
In Yiddish, a good deed is usually referred to with the Hebrew word, "MITS-vah".
What does the Yiddish word kibbutz mean?
Kibbutz is "Hebrew". It means a collective farm or settlement in the State of Israel.
Actually the word Kibbutz is a Hebrew word that means to gather.
What does the yiddish word chanana hara mean?
I'm guessing that the question quotes a badly corrupted form of the Yiddish expression "kayn ein hora".
The "kayn" comes straight from the German "kein" meaning "none".
The "ein hora" is the Hebrew "AH-yin ha-RAH" meaning something like "evil eye".
So the Yiddish expression means "no evil eye". It's a superstitious expression tossed into the conversation
directly following any compliment or good news, so as to express the hope that the delighting in the good
fortune should not 'jinx' the situation.
Examples:
My husband is expecting a promotion next month, to manager of the central territory.
Oh you lucky lady, he certainly deserves it kayn ein hora.
Our son has been accepted to the University of Illinois kayn ein hora.
We saw your brother's photo in the newspaper yesterday, and we were happy to hear his good news kayn ein hora.
Oy vey is a Yiddish phrase. It comes from German and Dutch and is sort of saying "oh, woe!"
Note that its synonym, Oy vavoy, is actually in the Hebrew Bible (see Proverbs 23:29 in the Hebrew).
What is the word for nice person in Yiddish?
Mentsh is probably your best bet. It means a good, honorable, decent person and can be applied to anyone whether male, female, adult or child.
You can also refer to someone as ehrlich, meaning upstanding and honest.
The phrase you're quoting is "Yiddishe kop", with the second word sounding more like "kawp". The word is actually straight from the German "kopf" meaning "head". A 'Yiddishe kop' is a "Jewish head". It's an observation expressed in the presence of a person who has just come out with an angle on the topic under discussion that is so audaciously unexpectedly logical in such an unconventional way that only a Jew, with 4000 years of the Jewish experience in his genes, could have thought to look at the subject that way ... whether brilliant or hopeless.
How do you say beautiful in Yiddish?
Depending on one's particular Yiddish dialect, it would sound like "shane", "shine", or "shoin". It comes directly from the German "schon" (with umlaut), as do so many Yiddish words and grammatical forms.
What is the yiddish word for beautiful?
The adjective for 'beautiful' when spoken in Yiddish sounds like "SHAYN", "SHINE", or "SHOYN", depending on the speaker's heritage, origin, and familial dialect. However pronounced, it comes straight from the German "schön".
How do you say cantor in Yiddish?
The formal pronunciation is "cha-ZAHN", but in colloquial Yiddish it usually comes out as "CHAH-zn".
What is the yiddish word for church?
church =[Die] Kirch* (feminine) or [Der] Kloystr(masculine)
*the 'ch' is pronounced like the 'ch' in the Gaelic loch
