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English Etymology From en Jew -ish. Compare enm Judewissh Jewish, ang Iūdēisċ Jewish, nl joodsch, nl joods Jewish, de jüdisch Jewish, da jødisk Jewish, sv judisk Jewish, got 𐌾𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 Jewish. See also the piecewise doublet en Yiddish 1. Pronunciation jo͞oʹ-ĭsh, en /ˈd͡ʒuː.ɪʃ/ en Jewish US.ogg US en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-Jewish.wav US en uːɪʃ 2 Adjective er,more Following the religion of Judaism. 1540s en Judaic en gentile goyish non-Jewish un-Jewish en Abrahamic en crypto-Jewish Orthodox Jewish en Samaritan en There are many Jewish people in France. en Brammhi Balarajan US interfaith communities draw on decades-long bonds to navigate Israel-Hamas War w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/22/us/us-interfaith-communities-navigate-israel-hamas-war-reaj 2023-11-22 Kaplan-Miller said she first joined the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, an interfaith organization that was founded by a Muslim and a Jewish woman in suburban New Jersey, shortly after the 2016 election. https://web.archive.org/web/20251119120425/https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/22/us/us-interfaith-communities-navigate-israel-hamas-war-reaj 19 November 2025 Of or relating to Jews, their ethnicities or cultures. en heebish Israelite Jew Jewy kikeish kikey Yiddish offensive rude informal offensive offensive informal en gentile goyish non-Jewish un-Jewish en Hebraic Hebrew en Ashkenazi Ashkenazic Blewish Jew-ish Jewishish Jewishy Mizrahi Sephardi Sephardic en Samaritan en I tried some traditional Jewish food yesterday. en Irene Silverblatt Andrew B. Fisher; Matthew D. O'hara 2009 Foreword xi Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America The notion of blood purity was first elaborated in Europe, where it was used to separate Old Christians from Spain’s New Christians—women and men of Jewish and Muslim origin whose ancestors had converted to Christianity. en 2023-10-13 Brian Logan ‘We’re all learning’: why Netflix needs Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda w:The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/oct/13/hannah-gadsby-nextflix-gender-agenda-nanette-standups As per the old Jewish joke “ask two Jews, get three opinions”, there’s room on this seven-strong bill (plus Hannah Gadsby Hannah Gadsby) for at least that many different perspectives on gender – including some impish scepticism from Canadian comic DeAnne Smith, who complains about “getting they/them’d against my will since 2005”. https://web.archive.org/web/20261018021447/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/oct/13/hannah-gadsby-nextflix-gender-agenda-nanette-standups 18 October 2026 en derogatory offensive dated Greedy, miserly. c. 1600 III 155 "Vanity!" ſays ſhe, haughtily, "What is vanity in you, ſir, is propriety in me. You aſk a Jewiſh price for it, Mr. Graves; but have it I will, if only to ſpite Mr. Eſmond." Yiddish. en en Operation Shylock Philip Roth 1993 47 The roots of American Jewry are not in the Middle East but in Europe—their Jewish style, their strong Jewish words, their strong nostalgia, their actual, weighable history, all this issues from their European origins. Grandpa did not hail from Haifa—he was a Jewish humanist, a spiritual, believing Jew, who complained not in an antique tongue called Hebrew but in colorful, rich, vernacular Yiddish. en A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish: Christians and the Jewish Language in Early Modern Germany Aya Elyada Stanford University Press 2012 Alternative forms en Jooish Juish juish humorous or derogatory Derived terms en Jewlatto Jewish Literary Aramaic anti-Jewish Jewish state Blewish Jewish occupation government Bluish crypto-Jewish Jewish Alps Jewish Autonomous Oblast Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Jewish badge Jewish Bible Jewish Bolshevism Jewish calendar Jewish champagne Jewish English Jewish flag Jewish hereness Jewish lightning is the Pope Jewish Jewish nose Jewish overdrive Jewish Palestinian Aramaic Jewish penicillin Jewish piano Jewish Question Jewish rye bread Jewish Science Jewish Standard Time Jewish tax Jewish typewriter Jewish Zionism Jewishish Jewishly Jewishness Jewishy non-Jewish Orthodox Jewish pro-Jewish pseudo-Jewish quasi-Jewish semi-Jewish un-Jewish unjewish Jewish colony Jewish Autonomous Region Jewish New Year Translations of or relating to a Jew or Jews, their ethnicity, religion or culture Albanian: sq hebré, sq çifut Arabic: ar يَهُودِيّ Armenian: hy հրեական Asturian: ast xudíu Azerbaijani: az yəhudi Bashkir: ba йәһүд Belarusian: be яўрэ́йскі, be габрэ́йскі, be жыдо́ўскі may be pejorative Bengali: bn ইহুদি Breton: br yuzev Bulgarian: bg евре́йски Burmese: my ဂျူး Catalan: ca jueu Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 猶太 猶太的 yóutài de Czech: cs židovský m Danish: da jødisk Dutch: nl joodse Esperanto: eo juda Estonian: et juudi Finnish: fi juutalainen French: fr juif Galician: gl xudeu, gl xudaico Georgian: ka ებრაული German: de jüdisch Gothic: got 𐌾𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 Greek: el ιουδαϊκός Ancient Greek: grc Ἰουδαῖος Hebrew: he יְהוּדִי y'hudí Hindi: hi यहूदी Hungarian: hu zsidó Icelandic: is gyðingaættar Indonesian: id Yahudi Irish: ga Giúdach Italian: it giudeo, it ebreo Japanese: ja ユダヤ ユダヤの ゆだやの, yudaya no, ja ユダヤ人 ユダヤじんの, yudayajin no ユダヤ人の Kazakh: kk еврей Khmer: km ជ្វីស Korean: ko 유대인 유대인-의, ko 히브리 히브리-의 Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: kmr cihû p m f, kmr yehûdî p m f Kyrgyz: ky еврей, ky жөөт, ky жуу Ladino: lad djudio Lao: lo ຢີວ Latin: la iūdaeus Latvian: lv ebreju Lithuanian: lt žydiškas, lt žydų Macedonian: mk еврејски Malay: ms Yahudi Maltese: mt Lhudi Mongolian: Cyrillic: mn еврей, mn жүүд Norwegian: Bokmål: nb jødisk Nynorsk: nn jødisk Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: cu жидовьскъ, cu июдѣискъ Old English: ang Iūdēisċ Pannonian Rusyn: rsk жидовски, rsk єврейски Pashto: ps يهودي yahudí Persian: Classical Persian: fa-cls یَهُودِی Iranian Persian: fa-ira یَهودی Polish: pl żydowski m Portuguese: pt judaico, pt judeu Punjabi: pa ਯਹੂਦੀ, pa یَہُودی Romanian: ro evreiesc Russian: ru евре́йский, ru иуде́йский, ru жидо́вский historical, offensive in modern Russian Sami: Northern Sami: se juvddálaš Scottish Gaelic: gd Iùdhach Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh јѐврејскӣ, sh жѝдовскӣ Croatia Latin: sh jèvrejskī, sh žìdovskī Croatia Slovak: sk židovský Slovene: sl judovski, sl židovski Spanish: es judío Swahili: sw Kiyahudi Swedish: sv judisk Tajik: tg яҳудиёнӣ, tg яҳудӣ Tatar: tt яһүд Thai: th ยิว Turkish: tr Musevi, tr Yahudi Turkmen: tk ýewreý, tk ýahudiý rare Ukrainian: uk євре́йський, uk іуде́йський, uk юде́йський, uk жиді́вський dated, now usually offensive Urdu: ur یَہُودی Uyghur: ug يەھۇدى Uzbek: uz yahudiy Vietnamese: vi Do thái Volapük: vo yudanik Welsh: cy Iddewig Yiddish: yi ייִדיש Yiddish Noun en NNSE proscribed A Jew. en Nov 26, 2022 ArgieSocDem 1596470249129496576 https://web.archive.org/web/20221209021708/https://twitter.com/ArgieSocDem/status/1596470249129496576 2022-12-09 The Statue of Liberty. A French gift with a poem made by a Jewish. en Proper noun en informal proscribed The Hebrew language. quoted in 1947, William Lloyd Warner, Leo Srole, The Social Systems of American Ethnic Groups (page 232) I can't speak Jewish; I can't even understand it. en informal proscribed The Yiddish language. en 2005-11-17 John Doyle Klier Imperial Russia's Jewish Question, 1855-1881 Cambridge University Press 9780521023818 57 We believe that although he speaks Jewish, he speaks Russian quite badly and pretentiously. en 2009 Martin S. Jaffee The End of Jewish Radar: Snapshots of a Postethnic American Judaism iUniverse 9781440132629 115 After a day servicing commercial refrigeration through the five boroughs, Dad would bring home a story of a Chinese waiter on Second Avenue who “speaks Jewish like a Galitzianer,” or of a Mafioso in a Queens fruit market who “has such yiddisher taam, I call him Rabbi Zino.” en 2012-08-06 Ewa Kurek Polish-Jewish Relations 1939-1945: Beyond the Limits of Solidarity iUniverse 9781475938326 215 A Jew wearing a cap with a visor and a red scarf around his neck is answering a Jewish woman who has addressed him in Polish: “One speaks Jewish aboard the Jewish tram”. Another butts in: “What about in Hebrew?” “In Hebrew as well”. The Jews in Wereszczyn spoke Jewish amongst themselves, and Polish with us. They had their own Jewish accent, but they had a pretty good grasp of the Polish language. Translations informal term for Yiddish Yiddish Dutch: nl Joods n French: fr juif m German: de Jüdisch n archaic Maltese: mt ludi Ukrainian: uk євре́йський, archaic uk жиді́вський See also en Israeli en Evrite, en Ivrite References 1077639758 adj en Judaism Languages People