"לשם־שמים" meaning in Yiddish

See לשם־שמים in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Interjection

IPA: /ɫəˌʃɛɪ̯mʃɔˈmajəm/ Forms: lesheym-shomayem [romanization]
Etymology: From Hebrew לְשֵׁם שָׁמַיִם (l'shém shamáyim, “in heaven's name”). Etymology templates: {{bor|yi|he|לְשֵׁם שָׁמַיִם|gloss=in heaven's name|tr=l'shém shamáyim}} Hebrew לְשֵׁם שָׁמַיִם (l'shém shamáyim, “in heaven's name”) Head templates: {{head|yi|interjection|tr=lesheym-shomayem}} לשם־שמים • (lesheym-shomayem)
  1. for the love of God, for God's sake
    Sense id: en-לשם־שמים-yi-intj-Pp6yZNo5 Categories (other): Yiddish entries with incorrect language header, Yiddish terms with non-redundant manual transliterations

Download JSON data for לשם־שמים meaning in Yiddish (1.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yi",
        "2": "he",
        "3": "לְשֵׁם שָׁמַיִם",
        "gloss": "in heaven's name",
        "tr": "l'shém shamáyim"
      },
      "expansion": "Hebrew לְשֵׁם שָׁמַיִם (l'shém shamáyim, “in heaven's name”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Hebrew לְשֵׁם שָׁמַיִם (l'shém shamáyim, “in heaven's name”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lesheym-shomayem",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yi",
        "2": "interjection",
        "tr": "lesheym-shomayem"
      },
      "expansion": "לשם־שמים • (lesheym-shomayem)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Yiddish",
  "lang_code": "yi",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Yiddish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Yiddish terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "for the love of God, for God's sake"
      ],
      "id": "en-לשם־שמים-yi-intj-Pp6yZNo5",
      "links": [
        [
          "for the love of God",
          "for the love of God"
        ],
        [
          "for God's sake",
          "for God's sake"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɫəˌʃɛɪ̯mʃɔˈmajəm/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "לשם־שמים"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yi",
        "2": "he",
        "3": "לְשֵׁם שָׁמַיִם",
        "gloss": "in heaven's name",
        "tr": "l'shém shamáyim"
      },
      "expansion": "Hebrew לְשֵׁם שָׁמַיִם (l'shém shamáyim, “in heaven's name”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Hebrew לְשֵׁם שָׁמַיִם (l'shém shamáyim, “in heaven's name”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lesheym-shomayem",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yi",
        "2": "interjection",
        "tr": "lesheym-shomayem"
      },
      "expansion": "לשם־שמים • (lesheym-shomayem)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Yiddish",
  "lang_code": "yi",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Yiddish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Yiddish interjections",
        "Yiddish lemmas",
        "Yiddish terms borrowed from Hebrew",
        "Yiddish terms derived from Hebrew",
        "Yiddish terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Yiddish terms with non-redundant manual transliterations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "for the love of God, for God's sake"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "for the love of God",
          "for the love of God"
        ],
        [
          "for God's sake",
          "for God's sake"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɫəˌʃɛɪ̯mʃɔˈmajəm/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "לשם־שמים"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Yiddish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.