chashuv
Pronunciations
Definitions
adj. Important; of high status.
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).
Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
- Yiddish
Etymology
Heb חשוב khashúv, Yiddish חשובֿ khóshev
- 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
- North America
- Great Britain
- South Africa
- None
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Alternative Spellings
choshuve, choshuv, khoshuv, hashuv, chashoov
Notes
When this adjective precedes a noun, it is often used with the Yiddish adjectival suffix -e.
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