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発音

• enPR: jo͞oʹ-ĭsh, IPA: /ˈd͡ʒuː.ɪʃ/
• 韻: -uːɪʃ

形容詞

Jewish (comparative Jewisher or more Jewish, superlative Jewishest or most Jewish)

1. Following the religion of Judaism. [1540s]

   Synonym: Judaic

   Antonyms: gentile, goyish, non-Jewish, un-Jewish

   Hypernym: Abrahamic

   Hyponyms: crypto-Jewish, Orthodox Jewish

   Coordinate term: Samaritan

   There are many Jewish people in France.

   • 2023 November 22, Brammhi Balarajan, “US interfaith communities draw on decades-long bonds to navigate Israel-Hamas War”, in CNN‎:

     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.

2. Of or relating to Jews, their ethnicities or cultures.

   Synonyms: heebish (offensive), Israelite, Jew (rude), Jewy (informal), kikeish (offensive), kikey (offensive), Yiddish (informal)

   Antonyms: gentile, goyish, non-Jewish, un-Jewish

   Hypernyms: Hebraic, Hebrew

   Hyponyms: Ashkenazi, Ashkenazic, Blewish, Jew-ish, Jewishish, Jewishy, Mizrahi, Sephardi, Sephardic

   Coordinate term: Samaritan

   I tried some traditional Jewish food yesterday.

   • 2009, Irene Silverblatt, “Foreword”, in Andrew B. Fisher, Matthew D. O'hara, editors, Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America, page xi:

     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.

   • 2023 October 13, Brian Logan, “‘We’re all learning’: why Netflix needs Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda”, in The Guardian‎:

     As per the old Jewish joke “ask two Jews, get three opinions”, there’s room on this seven-strong bill (plus [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”.

3. (derogatory, offensive, dated) Greedy, miserly. [c. 1600]
   • 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. […] , volume III, London: […] Smith, Elder, & Company, […], →OCLC, page 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."

4. Yiddish. (Can we verify this sense?)
   • 1993, Philip Roth, Operation Shylock, page 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.

   • 2012, Aya Elyada, A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish: Christians and the Jewish Language in Early Modern Germany, Stanford University Press:

別の表記

• Jooish, Juish, juish (humorous or derogatory)

派生語

名詞

Jewish (plural Jewishes)

1. (non-native speakers' English, proscribed) A Jew.
   • 2022 November 26, ArgieSocDem, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 9 December 2022:

     The Statue of Liberty. A French gift with a poem made by a Jewish.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Jewish.

固有名詞

Jewish

1. (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.

2. (informal, proscribed) The Yiddish language.
   • 2005 November 17, John Doyle Klier, Imperial Russia's Jewish Question, 1855-1881, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 57:

     We believe that although he speaks Jewish, he speaks Russian quite badly and pretentiously.

   • 2009, Martin S. Jaffee, The End of Jewish Radar: Snapshots of a Postethnic American Judaism, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 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.”

   • 2012 August 6, Ewa Kurek, Polish-Jewish Relations 1939-1945: Beyond the Limits of Solidarity, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 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.

参考

• Israeli
• Evrite, Ivrite

参照

• “Jewish, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

発音

• IPA: /d͡ʒuˈɪʃ/
• 韻: -ɪʃ

形容詞

Jew-ish (comparative more Jew-ish, superlative most Jew-ish)

1. (Judaism, colloquial) Identifying as culturally Jewish, but not taking part in religious activities.

   I'm not exactly Jewish; more like Jew-ish.

   • 2013 October 9, Leon A. Morris, “Religion Matters: Beware the American 'Cultural Jew'”, in Haaretz‎, Tel Aviv: Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd., →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 June 2022:

     The data reveals a group of American Jews who are, well, Jew-ish – an identity that is not only absent of faith, Torah and mitzvot, but also largely absent of anything that matters much at all.