yotzei

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Pronunciations

yotzei (YOH-tzei) listen

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Definitions

  • v. (With the helping verb "to be," and an object where required) to fulfill, as a mitzvah or some figurative obligation.

  • adj. Released from a religious obligation by dint of completion or fulfillment; "to have done what's required" (Glinert).

Example Sentences

  • Are you yotzei?

  • "If I had to go out in the middle of the shofar blowing -- am I yotse?" (Glinert)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • Yiddish יוצא זײַן yoytse zayn, a periphrastic verb ("yoytse" + to be), Hebrew verb יוצא yotsé (Ashkenazi Hebrew: yóytse) 'leaves, emerges from'

      • Who Uses This

      • Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)

      Regions

      • Great Britain
      • South Africa
      • Australia / New Zealand

      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).
      • Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim Weiser (Northvale, 1995).

      Alternative Spellings

      yotsei, yotse, yoitzei, yoytse, yotze, yoitzeh, yoitze

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