Jewish

Meanings

Adjective

• Being a Jew, or relating to Jews, their ethnicity, religion or culture.
• Yiddish.

Proper Noun

• The Yiddish or Hebrew language.

Related

Similar words

• Israelite

Opposite words

• Gentile

Origin

• From Jew + -ish. Compare Middle English Judewissh, Old English Iūdēisċ, Dutch joodsch, joods, German jüdisch ("Jewish"), Danish jødisk ("Jewish"), Swedish judisk ("Jewish"), Gothic 𐌾𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃. See also Yiddish.