Sephardic
Pronunciations
Sephardic | (seh-FAHR-dik) | listen |
Definitions
adj. Of or relating to the culture, customs, or ancestry of Jews whose ancestors came from the Iberian Peninsula before the Jewish expulsion.
n. (In plural) Jews whose ancestors came from the Iberian Peninsula before the Jewish expulsion.
Example Sentences
"The customs of Sephardic Jews differ in many ways from those of Ashkenazi Jews."
Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
- English
Etymology
from ספרד sefarád 'medieval Spain'
- Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements
- Non-Jews: (words that have spread outside of Jewish networks)
- North America
- Great Britain
- South Africa
- Australia / New Zealand
- View More
- 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).
- The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
- Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).
- View More
Who Uses This
Regions
Dictionaries
Alternative Spellings
Sefardic, Sephardi, Sefardi, Sefaradi, Sepharadi
Notes
Plural Sephardim / Sefardim.
Sometimes used more broadly to refer to all non-Ashkenazim, though there are in fact other non-Ashkenazi groups.
See also Mizrachi.
Edit Something missing from this entry? Inaccurate? Feel free to suggest an edit.