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Jewess en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /d͡ʒuːˈɛs/
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈd͡ʒuː.ɛs/

Etymology

From Middle English Jewesse, from Old French juiesse, juise; equivalent to Jew + -ess.

Meanings

1. (dated, humorous) A female Jew.
   • As for Wahram V (Gur), the Zoroastrian Persians could see him as a legitimate ruler and the Jews would see him as a Jewish king. After all, he was Jewish since his mother was a Jewess. 2009, Touraj Daryaee, Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, London: I.B.Tauris, →ISBN, page 78:
   • To whom did Ivanhoe tip his lance in gallantry today? To a Jewess named Rebecca, daughter of Isaac, the banker of his tribe. What could he want of the Jews except money for the ransom? 1952, Ivanhoe:
   • And the prominent, if not indeed the principal, part in the system of terrorism applied by the Extraordinary Commissions for Combating Counter-Revolution has been taken by Jews, and in some notable cases by Jewesses. 1920, Winston Churchill, Zionism versus Bolshevism:
   • You really are a high-class Jewess, lemme tell ya. 2015, Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, Knockoffs (Broad City), season 2, episode 4, spoken by Bobbi Wexler (Susie Essman), via Comedy Central:

Forms

Deriveds

Hassidic Jewess · Orthodox Jewess · secular Jewess · crypto-Jewess

Hypernyms

Jew

Relateds

Judea · Jew · Judaism · Hebrew · Jewry · Israeli · Yiddish · Israelite · Jewish · Judaica

Translations (66)

et juuditar (female Jew) · fy joadinne (female Jew) · la iūdaea (female Jew) · pl Żydówka (female Jew) · tr Yahudi (female Jew) · ko 유대인 (female Jew) · de Jüdin (female Jew) · cs Židovka (female Jew) · sh Jevrejka (female Jew) · fi juutalaisnainen (female Jew) · es judía (female Jew) · hu zsidó (female Jew) · sh Жидовка (female Jew) · be жыдо́ўка (female Jew) · sh Židkinja (female Jew) · fr Juive (female Jew) · yi ייִדישע טאָכטער (female Jew) · yi ייִדישקע (female Jew) · nn jødinne (female Jew) · ur یہودنی (female Jew) · el Ιουδαία (female Jew) · sh Židovka (female Jew) · tr Musevi (female Jew) · vi người Do Thái (female Jew) · vo jiyudan (female Jew) · sl Jevrejka (female Jew) · yi ייִדיש־קינד (female Jew) · sk Židovka (female Jew) · yi בת־ישׂראל (female Jew) · sl Judinja (female Jew) · fr juive (female Jew) · eo judino (female Jew) · fa یهودی (female Jew) · nl jodin (female Jew) · sv judinna (female Jew) · lv ebrejs (female Jew) · uk євре́йка (female Jew) · sl Židinja (female Jew) · uk жидо́вка (female Jew) · it ebrea (female Jew) · cy Iddewes (female Jew) · be габрэ́йка (female Jew) · lad djudia (female Jew) · ca jueva (female Jew) · hi यहूदिनी (female Jew) · mk Еврејка (female Jew) · ru евре́йка (female Jew) · bg евре́йка (female Jew) · io Judino (female Jew) · enm Jewesse (female Jew) · sh Жидкиња (female Jew) · ro evreică (female Jew) · ja ユダヤ人 (female Jew) · ar يَهُودِيَّة (female Jew) · he יהודיה \ יְהוּדִיָּה (female Jew) · pt judia (female Jew) · cmn 猶太人 /犹太人 (female Jew) · nb jødinne (female Jew) · it giudea (female Jew) · ko 유태인 (female Jew) · ru жидо́вка (female Jew) · ka ებრაელი ქალი (female Jew) · da jødinde (female Jew) · ia judea (female Jew) · sh Јеврејка (female Jew) · be яўрэ́йка (female Jew)