dati

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Pronunciations

dati (dah-TEE) listen

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Definitions

Example Sentences

  • "They're a dati family."

  • "Some of these towns are half dati and half chiloni." (Glinert)

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Languages of Origin

  • Modern Hebrew

Etymology

  • דתי dati 'religious'

      • Who Uses This

      • Israel: Diaspora Jews who feel connected to Israel and have spent time there

      Regions

      • North America
      • Australia / New Zealand
      • Great Britain
      • South Africa

      Dictionaries

      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
      • The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).

      Alternative Spellings

      datti

Notes

  • plural: 'dati'im' or 'datiim'

    See also dos.

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