yemach shemo

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Pronunciations

yemach shemo (yeh-MACH she-MOH) listen

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Definitions

  • interj. 'May his name be erased'; appended to the names of evil people (commonly Haman and Hitler).

Example Sentences

  • singular use: "This is the greatest revenge on Hitler, Yemach Shemo..."

  • plural use: "The Hungarian police, yemach shemam, came for my grandfather."

  • "That portrait in the corner is of Tsar Nicholas, yimach shemo." (Glinert)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • TH ימח שמו yemákh shemó > Y ימח־שמו yemakh-shmóy (plural ימח־שמם yemakh-shmóm)

      • Who Uses This

      • Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education

      Regions

      • North America
      • Great Britain
      • South Africa

      Dictionaries

      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
      • The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).

      Alternative Spellings

      yemach shmo, yimach shemo, yemakh shemoy, yemakh shmoy, yemach shmoy, yemach shmoi, yemakh shmoi

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