Download or read book Dictionary of Yiddish Slang and Idioms written by Fred Kogos and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yiddish idioms appear in romanized form.
Download or read book A dictionary of Yiddish slang idioms written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dictionary of Popular Yiddish Words Phrases and Proverbs written by Fred Kogos and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating, useful, and funny collection of proverbs, curses, maxims, and ribald expressions will teach readers all they ever wanted to know about this remarkable language.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Yiddish Idioms Expressions written by Joseph Abraham Weingarten and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of Yiddish Idioms Expressions written by Joseph A. Weingarten and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Yiddish Yiddish English Dictionary written by David C. Gross and published by Hippocrene Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Yiddish-English dictionary includes over 4,000 Romanized word-to-word entries; an appendix of idiomatic expressions & proverbs; and an appendix of common words used in the English language.
Download or read book Book of Yiddish Proverbs and Slang written by Fred Kogos and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern English Yiddish Dictionary written by Uriel Weinreich and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1987-12-27 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The standard reference guide, with more than 20,000 entries ranging from colloquial to literary Yiddish, plus: a grammar guide, a pronunciation key, and instructions for usage Dr. Uriel Weinreich’s Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary has been praised by both scholars and Yiddish writers for its completeness, its remarkable insight into the meanings of Yiddish words and expressions, and its precise presentation of Yiddish grammar and pronunciation. It is the work of one of this century’s most admired scholars of Yiddish language and culture, and took twenty years to complete. Comprehensive and reliable, the Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary is the standard reference guide to contemporary Yiddish, an essential volume for the beginner and the expert alike.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Yiddish Idioms Expressions written by Joseph Abraham Weingarten and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE YIDDISH DICTIONARY SOURCEBOOK By Galvin Herman Tamarkin written by Herman Galvin and published by Hoboken [N.J.] : Ktav. This book was released on 1986 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing over 8,500 Yiddish words and phrases in transliteration, The Yiddish Dictionary Sourcebook is the handiest guide available for those who wish to learn colloquial Yiddish. It features a comprehensive Yiddish-English/English-Yiddish dictionary which pays special attention to those words most useful for everyday conversation. Every word is given in both its standard Yiddish form and in English transliteration. The Introduction provides a brief history of the Yiddish language and of Yiddish culture in the United States in the last century, a guide to Yiddish pronunciation and grammar, and a series of topically arranged appendices containing Yiddish proverbs and popular expressions.
Download or read book Dirty Yiddish written by Adrienne Gusoff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Next time you’re chattin’ with your khaverim (friends) and mishpukheh (family), bust out some Yiddish expressions that’ll liven up the conversation. Nothing is censored in Dirty Yiddish. It includes phrases for any situation, so readers have enough chutzpah (balls) to tell the local deli that they’ve waited long enough for their knish, and explicit swear words crude enough to shock Bubby and everyone else at the Passover seder. There’s even vulgar sex terminology so graphic it puts the outspoken Lower East Side princesses to shame. Bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including cool slang, funny insults, explicit sex terms, and raw swear words. Dirty Yiddish teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of New York . . . What’s up? Vos makhst du? Crazy bastard! Meshuggeneh momzer! I’m hammered. Ikh bin fershikkert. Don’t fuck with me! Bareh mikh nit! I have the shits. Ikh hob a shittern mogn. Lick my pussy. Lekh meyn lokh. Was it good for you? Tsufreedn?
Download or read book A Yiddish Dictionary in Transliteration written by Harry Coldoff and published by [Willowdale, Ont.] : Proclaim Publications. This book was released on 1988 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining phonetic dictionary of the Yiddish language contains both English to Yiddish and Yiddish to English dictionaries. In addition, there are special sections on Yiddish translations, idioms, Yiddish words for plants, animals, weather, family relations, time, numbers, proper names, antecdotes, curses, death, cemetaries, God, and the zodiac.
Download or read book Every Goy s Guide to Common Jewish Expressions written by Arthur Naiman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: dredl: A dump little square top that won't spin right to play with on Chanukah. from that you make a living?: The correct response to someone who tells you they're an artist, a musician, a writer, or a blue-collar worker. goyim nakhes: The kind of things that gratify the stereotypical goy-a new motor home, bagging the limit duck hunting, a promotion to major, etc. mother (Jewish): I don't personally believe that Jewish mothers are all that different from other kinds of mothers. For one thing, my mother was nothing like the stereotype. She used to abandon me on our cabin floor for days at a time while she went out deer hunting...
Download or read book written by Mordkhe Schaechter and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing nearly 50,000 entries and 33,000 subentries, the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary emphasizes Yiddish as a living language that is spoken in many places around the world. The late Mordkhe Schaechter collected and researched spoken and literary Yiddish in all its varieties and this landmark dictionary reflects his vision for present-day and future Yiddish usage. The richness of dialect differences and historical developments are noted in entries ranging from "agriculture" to "zoology" and include words and expressions that can be found in classic and contemporary literature, newspapers, and other sources of the written word and have long been used by professionals and tradesmen, in synagogues, at home, in intimate life, and wherever Yiddish-speaking Jews have lived and worked.
Download or read book Drek written by Yetta Emmes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One doesn't have to be Jewish to recognize the words that have made their way into every fold of popular language: Chutzpah, Mensch, Tokhes, Mishmash, Nudge, Shtick, Schmaltzy, Schlep, Icky, and so on. Then there are phrases whose meaning and syntax are borrowed from Yiddish: "bite your tongue", "drop dead", "enough already", and "excuse the expression". This hilarious, concise guide includes chapters on the Basic Descriptions of People (the good, the bad, the ugly, and the goofy), the Fine Art of Cursing, Juicy Words and Phrases, Exclamations and Exasperations, and the Fine Art of Blessing.
Download or read book My First Yiddish Word Book written by Joni Sussman and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that Yiddish is written in Hebrew letters but pronounced more like German? Introduce your kids to their mama loshen (mother tongue) and open the door to their cultural heritage! The basic Yiddish vocabulary includes more than 150 words for family members, objects in the home and school, colors and numbers. Each concept is presented with a bright picture, the Yiddish word, and the translation and transliteration. The once-thriving language, spoken by millions, is undergoing a revival, and kids will enjoy learning to speak the colorful tongue.
Download or read book Comprehensive Yiddish English Dictionary written by Solon Beinfeld and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including over 37,000 entries compiled by a team of expert Yiddish linguists, Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary surpasses all its predecessors in the number of words and rich selection of idioms, examples of usage, and coverage of stylistic levels and dialect forms. The user-friendly entries include words for standard and literary as well as contemporary colloquial and conversational usage and a wide range of terms from all sources of Yiddish, including those of Hebraic-Aramaic, Slavic, and Romance as well as Germanic origin. The lexical corpus comes directly from the highly acclaimed Dictionnaire Yiddish-Français by Yitskhok Niborski and Bernard Vaisbrot, published by the Bibliothèque Medem in Paris in 2002. Augmented by an extensive user's guide, this volume is an indispensable resource for students, teachers, translators, and readers of Yiddish.
