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Sephardic
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English
Alternative forms
en Sefardic uncommon
Etymology
en :af Sephardi -ic + 1
Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Sephardic.wav US
Adjective
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Of or relating to the Sephardi Jews. 19th c.
en Sephardi
en Ashkephardi Ashkephardic
en Ashkenazi Ashkenazic
en 2004 David Mitchell Cloud Atlas Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery 119 978-0-676-97494-2 A Sephardic romance, composed before the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, fills the Lost Chord Music Store on the northwest corner of Spinoza Square and Sixth Avenue. ...The store clerk scribbles himself a to-do note and lifts the stylus back to the start of “¿Por qué lloras blanca niña?,” lowers the needle onto shimmering black vinyl, and dreams of Jewish shepherd boys plucking their lyres on starlit Iberian hillsides.
en Reuters Centuries-old mystery of Christopher Columbus’s true origins revealed in study w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/13/world/columbus-origins-western-europe-study-intl/index.html 2024-10-13 The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery. https://web.archive.org/web/20251123230645/https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/13/world/columbus-origins-western-europe-study-intl/index.html 23 November 2025
Translations
relating to the Sephardi Jews
Arabic: ar سِفَارْدِيّ
Catalan: ca sefardita
Finnish: fi sefardijuutalainen
French: fr séfarade
German: de sephardisch
Hebrew: he סְפָרַדִּי s'faradí
Irish: ga Safáratach
Italian: it sefardita
Ladino: lad sefardí
Persian: fa سفاردی sefârdi
Polish: pl sefardyjski
Portuguese: pt sefardi, pt sefardita m f
Romanian: ro sefard, ro sefardit
Russian: ru сефа́рдский
Spanish: es sefardí
Welsh: cy Seffardig
Yiddish: yi ספֿרדיש sfardish
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