Home
Add a Word
About Us
Notes
Jewish Languages
Volunteer
Donate
Home
Add a Word
About Us
Notes
Jewish Languages
Volunteer
Donate
☰
Add a new word
Origin:
Textual Hebrew
All
Textual Hebrew
Aramaic
Yiddish
Modern Hebrew
English
Ladino
Arabic / Judeo-Arabic
Other
Dictionary:
None
All
The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim Weiser (Northvale, 1995).
Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).
Other
None
All Uses
All
Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)
Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements
Camp: Jews who attend or work at a Jewish overnight summer camp
Israel: Diaspora Jews who feel connected to Israel and have spent time there
Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
Younger: Jews in their 30s or younger
Non-Jews: (words that have spread outside of Jewish networks)
Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage
Sephardim: Jews with Sephardi or Mizrahi heritage
Organizations: People involved in a professional or volunteer capacity with Jewish nonprofit organizations
Ethnic: Jews whose Jewish identity is primarily ethnic
Chabad: Jews affiliated with the Chabad Lubavitch movement
Other
Region:
Australia / New Zealand
All
North America
Great Britain
South Africa
Australia / New Zealand
Other
Origin:
Textual Hebrew
All
Textual Hebrew
Aramaic
Yiddish
Modern Hebrew
English
Ladino
Arabic / Judeo-Arabic
Other
Dictionary:
None
All
The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim Weiser (Northvale, 1995).
Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).
Other
None
All Uses
All
Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)
Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements
Camp: Jews who attend or work at a Jewish overnight summer camp
Israel: Diaspora Jews who feel connected to Israel and have spent time there
Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
Younger: Jews in their 30s or younger
Non-Jews: (words that have spread outside of Jewish networks)
Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage
Sephardim: Jews with Sephardi or Mizrahi heritage
Organizations: People involved in a professional or volunteer capacity with Jewish nonprofit organizations
Ethnic: Jews whose Jewish identity is primarily ethnic
Chabad: Jews affiliated with the Chabad Lubavitch movement
Other
Region:
Australia / New Zealand
All
North America
Great Britain
South Africa
Australia / New Zealand
Other
1 - 100 of 128
Am Yisrael chai
SEE FULL ENTRY
anash
SEE FULL ENTRY
Aseret HaDibrot
SEE FULL ENTRY
Ashkenormative
SEE FULL ENTRY
Ashki
SEE FULL ENTRY
asifa
SEE FULL ENTRY
atzmus
SEE FULL ENTRY
avodah zarah
SEE FULL ENTRY
B'nei Yisrael
SEE FULL ENTRY
b'shalom
SEE FULL ENTRY
barmy
SEE FULL ENTRY
Bayit Sheni
SEE FULL ENTRY
bench gomel
SEE FULL ENTRY
bli ayin hara
SEE FULL ENTRY
chamishi
SEE FULL ENTRY
chanichim
SEE FULL ENTRY
chassidish
SEE FULL ENTRY
Chatzi Kaddish
SEE FULL ENTRY
chet
SEE FULL ENTRY
Chitas
SEE FULL ENTRY
chitzoni
SEE FULL ENTRY
Chrismukkah
SEE FULL ENTRY
counting the omer
SEE FULL ENTRY
Daled Bavos
SEE FULL ENTRY
dira betachtonim
SEE FULL ENTRY
duch
SEE FULL ENTRY
dugma
SEE FULL ENTRY
from strength to strength
SEE FULL ENTRY
geza
SEE FULL ENTRY
hachlata
SEE FULL ENTRY
hakarat hatov
SEE FULL ENTRY
halachic
SEE FULL ENTRY
halachically
SEE FULL ENTRY
halleluyah
SEE FULL ENTRY
hashkama
SEE FULL ENTRY
Hatzalah
SEE FULL ENTRY
havayah
SEE FULL ENTRY
hergesh
SEE FULL ENTRY
hillula
SEE FULL ENTRY
hisbonenus
SEE FULL ENTRY
hiskashrus
SEE FULL ENTRY
igros
SEE FULL ENTRY
Kab Shab
SEE FULL ENTRY
Kaddish D'Rabbanan
SEE FULL ENTRY
Kaddish Shalem
SEE FULL ENTRY
Kaddish Yatom
SEE FULL ENTRY
kadosh
SEE FULL ENTRY
kahal
SEE FULL ENTRY
karpas
SEE FULL ENTRY
keep kosher
SEE FULL ENTRY
kehila kedosha
SEE FULL ENTRY
keitzed m'rakdim
SEE FULL ENTRY
KFP
SEE FULL ENTRY
Kinneret
SEE FULL ENTRY
kinus
SEE FULL ENTRY
Kippur
SEE FULL ENTRY
KLP
SEE FULL ENTRY
kollel
SEE FULL ENTRY
L'dor va'dor
SEE FULL ENTRY
l'shalom
SEE FULL ENTRY
limudei kodesh
SEE FULL ENTRY
machane
SEE FULL ENTRY
maimouna
SEE FULL ENTRY
masa
SEE FULL ENTRY
matzah pizza
SEE FULL ENTRY
mekurav
SEE FULL ENTRY
mekushar
SEE FULL ENTRY
meshichist
SEE FULL ENTRY
milah
SEE FULL ENTRY
minhag hamakom
SEE FULL ENTRY
mivtza
SEE FULL ENTRY
mora
SEE FULL ENTRY
moserim
SEE FULL ENTRY
mushpa
SEE FULL ENTRY
negiah
SEE FULL ENTRY
OB"M
SEE FULL ENTRY
Off the derech
SEE FULL ENTRY
ohel
SEE FULL ENTRY
Omer
SEE FULL ENTRY
on one foot
SEE FULL ENTRY
oneg
SEE FULL ENTRY
or ein sof
SEE FULL ENTRY
oros bekeilim
SEE FULL ENTRY
pan
SEE FULL ENTRY
pas Yisroel
SEE FULL ENTRY
perek
SEE FULL ENTRY
pnimi
SEE FULL ENTRY
prutah
SEE FULL ENTRY
Rabbeinu Tam
SEE FULL ENTRY
Rema
SEE FULL ENTRY
revi'i
SEE FULL ENTRY
rosh
SEE FULL ENTRY
seudas aniyim
SEE FULL ENTRY
Shabbat lamp
SEE FULL ENTRY
Shabbos elevator
SEE FULL ENTRY
shaloshudes
SEE FULL ENTRY
shecht
SEE FULL ENTRY
sheni
SEE FULL ENTRY
shir
SEE FULL ENTRY
shira
SEE FULL ENTRY
>> next
