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- DictionaryYid·dish/ˈyidiSH/
noun
- 1. a language used by Jewish people in central and eastern Europe before the Holocaust. It was originally a German dialect with words from Hebrew and several modern languages and is today spoken mainly in the US, Israel, and Russia: "Faigele was mum's name in Yiddish"
adjective
- 1. relating to Yiddish: "a Yiddish word"
Texts & Literature. • Yiddish book center: digital Yiddish library. • Yiddish books. • Yiddish audiobooks. • Palmm: Yiddish children books. • Goethe Universität, Frankfurt: Online Yiddish books. • Mendele מענדעלע online journal about the Yiddish language and literature. • The meaning of Yiddish by Benjamin Harshav (1990 ...
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Use capital letters for the first letters of Hebrew propernames (like Refoyl and Binyomen).Don't use capital letters for any other Yiddish words. If you need a loshn-koydesh derived word, first spell it phonetically.Unaccented vowels often should be spelled with an e, as inborekh, bimkem, andmaskem. If you don't know or can't guess the pronunciatio...
I record a few categories along with definitions. So type clothing or soundand you will get lists of clothing words and sound words. I also note a fewgrammatical items (try indeclinable) and usage (tryinadmissable or German). On occasion I indicate where I saw a word, especially if I don't see the sameword in standard dictionaries; try Forwards,Hof...
I have used standard YIVO Romanization and orthography in this dictionary. Ifyou are trying to find a word that uses other schemes (see the Wikipedia articlefor some insight), consider making these adjustments. 1. Don't use the prefix be-; use ba-. 2. Don't use the prefix er-; use der-. 3. Don't use the inseparable verb prefix tsu-; use tse-. 4. Do...
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Translations from dictionary English - Yiddish, definitions, grammar. In Glosbe you will find translations from English into Yiddish coming from various sources. The translations are sorted from the most common to the less popular. We make every effort to ensure that each expression has definitions or information about the inflection.
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Publication Information. אַרומנעמיק ייִדיש־ענגליש ווערטערבוך. Solon Beinfeld and Harry Bochner, eds., Arumnemik yidish-english verterbukh/Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013), 704 pp., hardcover [ISBN-978-0-253-00983-8].
English - Yiddish Dictionary. At this moment, the English - Yiddish Dictionary has a number of 4,070 words in english as well as 4,317 translations of usual and less usual expressions, being, at the same time, fast and easy to use. Up to now, there is a number of 335,417 searched words / expressions, among 1,778 today.
