meylets yoysher

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Definitions

  • n. A defender.

  • n. An intercessor.

Example Sentences

  • "Nukhem the Shamas delegated the blind Gemara-melamed as the Amdur meylets-yoysher [intercessor] to the other world on behalf of Amdur" (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • Y מליץ־יושר meylets-yoysher

      • 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

      meylets yoisher, meyletz yoisher, meyletz yoysher, mayletz yoysher, mayletz yoisher, maylets yoisher, maylets yoysher

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