chashuv

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Pronunciations

chashuv (cha-SHOOV) listen
choshuv (KHOH-shuv) listen

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Definitions

  • adj. Important, prominent, respected.

  • n. An important person.

Example Sentences

  • "...from his father's side Reb Berel came from a very choshuve Litvishe family. He was a talmid of Volozhin and a choshuve Rov in Russia" (source).

  • "All the chashoovim who used to chanfe me (kiss my fat ass) will now shake their heads at me with disapproving looks and say loudly 'ah shanda'." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • TH חשוב khashúv > Y חשובֿ khóshev

      • Who Uses This

      • Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
      • Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)
      • Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage

      Regions

      • North America
      • Great Britain
      • South Africa

      Dictionaries

      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).

      Alternative Spellings

      choshuve, choshuv, khoshuv, hashuv, chashoov, khoshev, choshev

Notes

  • When this adjective precedes a noun, it is often used with the Yiddish adjectival suffix -e (khashuve).

    singular: 'khashuv'
    plural: 'khashuvim'

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