Definitions

  • adj. Definite, certain.

Example Sentences

  • "We had the same ideas. It was bashtimt [definite], we say. HaShem wanted it for me." (Hasidic People: A Place in the New World by Jerome R. Mintz)

Languages of Origin

  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • באַשטימט bashtimt

    • Who Uses This

      • Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
      • Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

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

      Alternative Spellings

      baschtimt

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