shtrayml

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Pronunciations

shtreymel (SHTREY-ml) listen

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Definitions

Example Sentences

  • "A bearded man with long payess, in a long, black caftan robe, wearing a high, wide-brimmed shtrayml, was often seen in Jewish neighborhoods in America in the earlier years of the century" (Rosten).

  • "I'm a hatmaker, but what really matters is that on rare occasions I make a magnificent fur hat, a shtrayml." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • Yiddish שטרײַמל shtrayml 'fur hat'

      • Who Uses This

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

      Regions

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

      Dictionaries

      • The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
      • The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
      • Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).

      Alternative Spellings

      straymel, streimal, straimal, straymal, streiml, straiml, strayml, schtraimel, shtraimel, schtreimel, shtreimel, schtraymel, shtraymel, schtraimal, shtraimal, schtreimal, shtreimal, schtraymal, shtraymal, schtraiml, shtraiml, schtrayml, shtreiml, schtreiml, straimel, streimel, shtreymel, shtreyml

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