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A page from Elia Levita's Yiddish-Hebrew-Latin-German dictionary (16th century) including the word goy (גוי), translated to Latin as ethnicus, meaning heathen or pagan. [1] In modern Hebrew and Yiddish, goy (/ ɡ ɔɪ /; גוי , pl.: goyim / ˈ ɡ ɔɪ. ɪ m /, גוים or גויים ) is a term for a gentile, a non-Jew. [2]
The Ben-Yehuda Dictionary is a historical Hebrew dictionary. The first volume was published in 1908 [1] by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, while the last was published long after his death, in 1958 by his wife and his son. [2] An important feature of the dictionary was its inclusion of various new words invented by Ben-Yehuda to describe modern objects ...
אגרת הקדש, אגה״ק ( Igeret HaKodesh) - 1) ( Chasidism) Holy Letter; a volume of the Tanya. 2) A treatise by the Ramban on marriage. אגרת התשובה, אגה״ת ( Igeret HaT'shuvah) - ( Chasidism) lit. Letter of Teshuvah; a volume of the Tanya. אגרות קודש, אג״ק ( Igrot Kodesh) - Holy Letters.
This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).
The Historical Dictionary Project of the Hebrew Language ( HDP; Hebrew: מִפְעַל הַמִּלּוֹן הַהִיסְטוֹרִי) is a long-term research undertaking of the Academy of the Hebrew Language. According to the Academy's website, "The overarching goal of the HDP is to present the history and development of the Hebrew lexicon ...
In Hebrew, the letters that form those prefixes are called "formative letters" ( Hebrew: אוֹתִיּוֹת הַשִּׁמּוּשׁ, Otiyot HaShimush ). Eleven of the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet are considered Otiyot HaShimush. These letters are Aleph ( א ), Bet ( ב ), He ( ה ), Vav ( ו ), Yud ( י ), Kaf ( כ ), Lamed ( ל ...
t. e. Aggadah ( Hebrew: אַגָּדָה ʾAggāḏā or הַגָּדָה Haggāḏā; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אַגָּדְתָא ʾAggāḏəṯāʾ; "tales, fairytale, lore") is the non-legalistic exegesis which appears in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly the Talmud and Midrash. In general, Aggadah is a ...
Jewish English Lexicon. Jewish English Lexicon ( JEL) is an online dictionary of the language spoken by Jewish English speakers, encompassesing a varied assortment of terms that originate from ancient and modern Hebrew, Aramaic, Yiddish, Ladino, Arabic, among other languages. [1] [2] The lexicon treats "Jewish English" as a Jewish dialect of ...