davka
Pronunciations
davka | (DAHV-kuh) | listen |
Definitions
adv. Exactly, specifically.
adv. Even (emphasizing a comparison or extreme example).
adv. Just to annoy; out of spite.
Example Sentences
Languages of Origin
- Aramaic
- Yiddish
- Modern Hebrew
Etymology
A > MH דַּוְקָא davká, Y דװקא dafke
- Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
- Israel: Diaspora Jews who feel connected to Israel and have spent time there
- Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
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- North America
- Great Britain
- South Africa
- Australia / New Zealand
- Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
- The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
- The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
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Alternative Spellings
dafka, dafke
Notes
See also bedavka.
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