lashon hara
Pronunciations
Definitions
n. "Gossip." (lit. "evil tongue") (JPS)
Example Sentences
"I would tell you, but I don't want to speak lashon hara."
Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
- Yiddish
Etymology
Heb לשון הרע lashón hará, Yiddish לשון־הרע loshn-hóre
- Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
- Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements
- North America
- Great Britain
- South Africa
- Australia / New Zealand
- View More
- 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).
Who Uses This
Regions
Dictionaries
Alternative Spellings
loshn hore, loshon hora, lashon hora, leshon hara, l'shon hara
Notes
More common among Orthodox Jews.
Edit Something missing from this entry? Inaccurate? Feel free to suggest an edit.