"Jewess" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Jewesses [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English Jewesse, from Old French juiesse, juise; equivalent to Jew + -ess. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|Jewesse}} Middle English Jewesse, {{der|en|fro|juiesse}} Old French juiesse, {{suffix|en|Jew|ess<id:female>}} Jew + -ess Head templates: {{en-noun}} Jewess (plural Jewesses)
  1. (dated or humorous) A female Jew. Tags: dated, humorous Categories (topical): Judaism, People Derived forms: crypto-Jewess, Hassidic Jewess, Orthodox Jewess, secular Jewess Related terms: Jew, Jewish, Jewry, Judaica, Judaism, Judea, Hebrew, Israeli, Israelite, Yiddish Translations (female Jew): يَهُودِيَّة (yahūdiyya) [feminine] (Arabic), яўрэ́йка (jaŭréjka) [feminine] (Belarusian), габрэ́йка (habréjka) [feminine] (Belarusian), жыдо́ўка (žydóŭka) [feminine, historical, offensive] (Belarusian), евре́йка (evréjka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), jueva [feminine] (Catalan), 猶太人 (Chinese Mandarin), 犹太人 (yóutàirén) [gender-neutral] (Chinese Mandarin), Židovka [feminine] (Czech), jødinde [common-gender] (Danish), jodin [feminine] (Dutch), judino (Esperanto), juuditar (Estonian), juutalaisnainen (Finnish), Juive [ethnic, feminine] (French), juive (english: religious) [feminine] (French), ებრაელი ქალი (ebraeli kali) (Georgian), Jüdin [feminine] (German), Ιουδαία (Ioudaía) [feminine] (Greek), יהודיה \ יְהוּדִיָּה (yehudiyá) [feminine] (Hebrew), यहूदिनी (yahūdinī) [feminine] (Hindi), zsidó [gender-neutral] (Hungarian), Judino (Ido), judea (Interlingua), giudea [feminine] (Italian), ebrea [feminine] (Italian), ユダヤ人 (yudayajin) (alt: ユダヤじん) [gender-neutral] (Japanese), 유대인 (yudaein) [gender-neutral] (Korean), 유태인 (yutaein) [gender-neutral] (Korean), djudia [Latin, feminine] (Ladino), iūdaea [feminine] (Latin), ebrejs [masculine] (Latvian), Еврејка (Evrejka) [feminine] (Macedonian), Jewesse (Middle English), jødinne [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), jødinne [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), یهودی (yahudi) [gender-neutral] (Persian), Żydówka [feminine] (Polish), judia [feminine] (Portuguese), evreică [feminine] (Romanian), евре́йка (jevréjka) [feminine] (Russian), жидо́вка (židóvka) [feminine, historical, offensive] (Russian), Јеврејка [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), Жидовка [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), Жидкиња [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), Jevrejka [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), Židovka [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), Židkinja [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), Židovka [feminine] (Slovak), Jevrejka [feminine] (Slovene), Židinja [feminine] (Slovene), Judinja [feminine] (Slovene), judía [feminine] (Spanish), judinna [common-gender] (Swedish), Musevi (english: belief) (Turkish), Yahudi (Turkish), євре́йка (jevréjka) [feminine] (Ukrainian), жидо́вка (žydóvka) [feminine] (Ukrainian), یہودنی (yahūdinī) [feminine] (Urdu), người Do Thái [gender-neutral] (Vietnamese), jiyudan (Volapük), Iddewes [feminine] (Welsh), joadinne [feminine] (West Frisian), ייִדישקע (yidishke) [feminine] (Yiddish), ייִדיש־קינד (yidish-kind) [feminine] (Yiddish), בת־ישׂראל (bas-yisroel) [feminine] (Yiddish), ייִדישע טאָכטער (yidishe tokhter) [feminine] (Yiddish)
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Inflected forms

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          "word": "crypto-Jewess"
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          "ref": "1920, Winston Churchill, Zionism versus Bolshevism:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1952, Ivanhoe:",
          "text": "To whom did Ivanhoe tip his lance in gallantry today?\nTo a Jewess named Rebecca, daughter of Isaac, the banker of his tribe.\nWhat could he want of the Jews except money for the ransom?",
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          "ref": "2009, Touraj Daryaee, Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, London: I.B.Tauris, →ISBN, page 78:",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "2015, Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, Knockoffs (Broad City), season 2, episode 4, spoken by Bobbi Wexler (Susie Essman), via Comedy Central:",
          "text": "You really are a high-class Jewess, lemme tell ya.",
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          "alt": "ユダヤじん",
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            "gender-neutral"
          ],
          "word": "유태인"
        },
        {
          "code": "lad",
          "lang": "Ladino",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "djudia"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "iūdaea"
        },
        {
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ebrejs"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "Evrejka",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Еврејка"
        },
        {
          "code": "enm",
          "lang": "Middle English",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "word": "Jewesse"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "jødinne"
        },
        {
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "jødinne"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "yahudi",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "gender-neutral"
          ],
          "word": "یهودی"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Żydówka"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "judia"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "evreică"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "jevréjka",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "евре́йка"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "židóvka",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "historical",
            "offensive"
          ],
          "word": "жидо́вка"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Јеврејка"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Жидовка"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Жидкиња"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Jevrejka"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Židovka"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Židkinja"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Židovka"
        },
        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Jevrejka"
        },
        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Židinja"
        },
        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Judinja"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "judía"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "judinna"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "english": "belief",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "word": "Musevi"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "word": "Yahudi"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "jevréjka",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "євре́йка"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "žydóvka",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "жидо́вка"
        },
        {
          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "roman": "yahūdinī",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "یہودنی"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "gender-neutral"
          ],
          "word": "người Do Thái"
        },
        {
          "code": "vo",
          "lang": "Volapük",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "word": "jiyudan"
        },
        {
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Iddewes"
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        {
          "code": "fy",
          "lang": "West Frisian",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "joadinne"
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          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "yidishke",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ייִדישקע"
        },
        {
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "yidish-kind",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ייִדיש־קינד"
        },
        {
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "bas-yisroel",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "בת־ישׂראל"
        },
        {
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "yidishe tokhter",
          "sense": "female Jew",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ייִדישע טאָכטער"
        }
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}
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "crypto-Jewess"
    },
    {
      "word": "Hassidic Jewess"
    },
    {
      "word": "Orthodox Jewess"
    },
    {
      "word": "secular Jewess"
    }
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        "3": "Jewesse"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
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        "2": "fro",
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      "name": "der"
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      "form": "Jewesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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      "word": "Jew"
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      "word": "Jewish"
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    {
      "word": "Jewry"
    },
    {
      "word": "Judaica"
    },
    {
      "word": "Judaism"
    },
    {
      "word": "Judea"
    },
    {
      "word": "Hebrew"
    },
    {
      "word": "Israeli"
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    {
      "word": "Israelite"
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      "word": "Yiddish"
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms derived from Old French",
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        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Latin links with redundant target parameters",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Terms with Arabic translations",
        "Terms with Belarusian translations",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Catalan translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Esperanto translations",
        "Terms with Estonian translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Georgian translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Hebrew translations",
        "Terms with Hindi translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Ido translations",
        "Terms with Interlingua translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Korean translations",
        "Terms with Ladino translations",
        "Terms with Latin translations",
        "Terms with Latvian translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Middle English translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
        "Terms with Persian translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
        "Terms with Slovak translations",
        "Terms with Slovene translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
        "Terms with Urdu translations",
        "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
        "Terms with Volapük translations",
        "Terms with Welsh translations",
        "Terms with West Frisian translations",
        "Terms with Yiddish translations",
        "Urdu terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "Yiddish terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "en:Judaism",
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        {
          "ref": "1920, Winston Churchill, Zionism versus Bolshevism:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1952, Ivanhoe:",
          "text": "To whom did Ivanhoe tip his lance in gallantry today?\nTo a Jewess named Rebecca, daughter of Isaac, the banker of his tribe.\nWhat could he want of the Jews except money for the ransom?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Touraj Daryaee, Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, London: I.B.Tauris, →ISBN, page 78:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, Knockoffs (Broad City), season 2, episode 4, spoken by Bobbi Wexler (Susie Essman), via Comedy Central:",
          "text": "You really are a high-class Jewess, lemme tell ya.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "yahūdiyya",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "يَهُودِيَّة"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "jaŭréjka",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "яўрэ́йка"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "habréjka",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "габрэ́йка"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "žydóŭka",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "historical",
        "offensive"
      ],
      "word": "жыдо́ўка"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "evréjka",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "евре́йка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "jueva"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "word": "猶太人"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yóutàirén",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "gender-neutral"
      ],
      "word": "犹太人"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Židovka"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "jødinde"
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    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "jodin"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "word": "judino"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "word": "juuditar"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "word": "juutalaisnainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "ethnic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Juive"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "english": "religious",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "juive"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ebraeli kali",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "word": "ებრაელი ქალი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Jüdin"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "Ioudaía",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Ιουδαία"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "yehudiyá",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "יהודיה \\ יְהוּדִיָּה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "yahūdinī",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "यहूदिनी"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "gender-neutral"
      ],
      "word": "zsidó"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "word": "Judino"
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    {
      "code": "ia",
      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "word": "judea"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "giudea"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ebrea"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ユダヤじん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "yudayajin",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "gender-neutral"
      ],
      "word": "ユダヤ人"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "yudaein",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "gender-neutral"
      ],
      "word": "유대인"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "yutaein",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "gender-neutral"
      ],
      "word": "유태인"
    },
    {
      "code": "lad",
      "lang": "Ladino",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "djudia"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "iūdaea"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ebrejs"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "Evrejka",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Еврејка"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "word": "Jewesse"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "jødinne"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "jødinne"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "yahudi",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "gender-neutral"
      ],
      "word": "یهودی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Żydówka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "judia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "evreică"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "jevréjka",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "евре́йка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "židóvka",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "historical",
        "offensive"
      ],
      "word": "жидо́вка"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Јеврејка"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Жидовка"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Жидкиња"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Jevrejka"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Židovka"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Židkinja"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Židovka"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Jevrejka"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Židinja"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Judinja"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "judía"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "judinna"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "english": "belief",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "word": "Musevi"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "word": "Yahudi"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "jevréjka",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "євре́йка"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "žydóvka",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "жидо́вка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "yahūdinī",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "یہودنی"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "gender-neutral"
      ],
      "word": "người Do Thái"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "word": "jiyudan"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Iddewes"
    },
    {
      "code": "fy",
      "lang": "West Frisian",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "joadinne"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "yidishke",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ייִדישקע"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "yidish-kind",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ייִדיש־קינד"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "bas-yisroel",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "בת־ישׂראל"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "yidishe tokhter",
      "sense": "female Jew",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ייִדישע טאָכטער"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Jewess"
}

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