dales

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Definitions

  • n. Poverty.

Example Sentences

  • "Dales--Yiddish for poverty--is practically personified in the language. We've got to remember that until the rise of the Nazis, poverty--not antisemitism--was considered the single biggest problem facing the Jews of Europe." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • Y דלות dales

      • 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

      dalles, dalus, dallus, dalis, dallis, daloot, dalut

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