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Jewess
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English
thumb|A Jewess.
Etymology
From en enm Jewesse, from en fro juiesse, fro juise; equivalent to en Jew ess<id:female>.
Pronunciation
en /ˈd͡ʒuː.ɛs/ /d͡ʒuːˈɛs/
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Noun
en dated or humorous A female Jew. 14th c.
en Jew
en giyoret
en 1920 w:Winston Churchill s:Zionism versus Bolshevism And the prominent, if not indeed the principal, part in the system of terrorism applied by the Extraordinary Commissions for Combating Counter-Revolution has been taken by Jews, and in some notable cases by Jewesses.
en 1952 Ivanhoe (1952 film) Ivanhoe To whom did Ivanhoe tip his lance in gallantry today?To a Jewess named Rebecca, daughter of Isaac, the banker of his tribe.What could he want of the Jews except money for the ransom?
en Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire Touraj Daryaee I.B.Tauris 2009 London 978-1-85043-898-4 78 As for Wahram V (Gur), the Zoroastrian Persians could see him as a legitimate ruler and the Jews would see him as a Jewish king. After all, he was Jewish since his mother was a Jewess.
en w:Susie Essman Bobbi Wexler Knockoffs w:Broad City 2 4 w:Lucia Aniello; w:Paul W. Downs w:Comedy Central 2015 You really are a high-class Jewess, lemme tell ya.
Derived terms
en crypto-Jewess Hassidic Jewess Orthodox Jewess secular Jewess
Related terms
en Jew Jewish Jewry Judaica Judaism Judea
Translations
female Jew
Arabic: ar يَهُودِيَّة f
Belarusian: be яўрэ́йка f, be габрэ́йка f, be жыдо́ўка f historical, now offensive
Bulgarian: bg евре́йка f
Catalan: ca jueva f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 猶太人 yóutàirén gender-neutral
Czech: cs Židovka f
Danish: da jødinde c
Dutch: nl jodin f
Esperanto: eo judino
Estonian: et juuditar
Finnish: fi juutalaisnainen
French: fr Juive f ethnic, fr juive f religious
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy joadinne f
Georgian: ka ებრაელი ქალი
German: de Jüdin f
Greek: el Ιουδαία f
Hebrew: he יהודיה f yehudiyá יהודיה \ יְהוּדִיָּה
Hindi: hi यहूदिनी f
Hungarian: hu zsidó gender-neutral
Ido: io Judino
Interlingua: ia judea
Italian: it giudea f, it ebrea f
Japanese: ja ユダヤ人 ユダヤじん, yudayajin gender-neutral
Korean: ko 유대인 gender-neutral, ko 유태인 gender-neutral
Ladino:
Latin: lad djudia f
Latin: la iudaea f iūdaea
Latvian: lv ebrejs m
Macedonian: mk Еврејка f
Middle English: enm Jewesse
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb jødinne m f
Nynorsk: nn jødinne f
Persian: fa یهودی yahudi gender-neutral
Polish: pl Żydówka f
Portuguese: pt judia f
Romanian: ro evreică f
Russian: ru евре́йка f, ru жидо́вка f historical, now offensive
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Јеврејка f, sh Жидовка f, sh Жидкиња f
Latin: sh Jevrejka f, sh Židovka f, sh Židkinja f
Slovak: sk Židovka f
Slovene: sl Jevrejka f, sl Židinja f, sl Judinja f
Spanish: es judía f
Swedish: sv judinna c
Turkish: tr Musevi belief, tr Yahudi
Ukrainian: uk євре́йка f, uk жидо́вка f
Urdu: ur یہودنی f yahūdinī
Vietnamese: vi người Do Thái gender-neutral
Volapük: vo jiyudan
Welsh: cy Iddewes f
Yiddish: yi ייִדישקע f, yi ייִדיש־קינד f, yi בת־ישׂראל f bas-yisroel, yi ייִדישע טאָכטער f
See also
en Hebrew
en Israeli
en Israelite
en Yiddish
References
en Judaism People