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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
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
How do you write heaven in yiddish?
Depending on his dialect or culture, a Yiddish speaker might refer to heaven either as "sha-MAH-yim", the Hebrew word, or else as "HIM-ml", the German word.
What does the Yiddish name Shepsel mean in English?
While the word "sheps" means "sheep", and "shepsel" thus means "lamb", that is NOT the origin of the name. The name Shepsel is in fact a diminutive of Shabsi, or Shabsai, a name that appears in the Bible, and may mean "Saturn".
The spelling is rachmones (or rachmonis), a Yiddish word for pity or compassion.
What Yiddish expression might you hear before a toast?
The expression isn't Yiddish, it is Hebrew and is: l'chayim
L'chayim in English is: To Life
What is the Yiddish word knickknack or collectible?
One word for knickknacks in Yiddish is "tchotchkes".
What does Shayna mean in yiddish?
"Pretty" or "Beautiful". By way of Yiddish, it comes from the German "schon" (with an umlaut), which has the same meaning.
Kvetch is a Yiddish verb which essentially means to complain in an irritating or annoying and exhausting way. Oy.
