"צווישן" meaning in Yiddish

See צווישן in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Preposition

IPA: /ˈt͡svɪʃn̩/ Forms: tsvishn [romanization]
Etymology: From Old High German in zuiskēn, from zuiski (“twofold”), from zwēne (“two”). Compare German zwischen. Etymology templates: {{der|yi|goh|in zuiskēn}} Old High German in zuiskēn, {{cog|de|zwischen}} German zwischen Head templates: {{head|yi|preposition|tr=tsvishn}} צווישן • (tsvishn)
  1. between, among
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yi",
        "2": "goh",
        "3": "in zuiskēn"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German in zuiskēn",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "zwischen"
      },
      "expansion": "German zwischen",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old High German in zuiskēn, from zuiski (“twofold”), from zwēne (“two”). Compare German zwischen.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tsvishn",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yi",
        "2": "preposition",
        "tr": "tsvishn"
      },
      "expansion": "צווישן • (tsvishn)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Yiddish",
  "lang_code": "yi",
  "pos": "prep",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Yiddish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Yiddish prepositions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Yiddish terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "between, among"
      ],
      "id": "en-צווישן-yi-prep-29HWkNKf",
      "links": [
        [
          "between",
          "between"
        ],
        [
          "among",
          "among"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡svɪʃn̩/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "צווישן"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yi",
        "2": "goh",
        "3": "in zuiskēn"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German in zuiskēn",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "zwischen"
      },
      "expansion": "German zwischen",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old High German in zuiskēn, from zuiski (“twofold”), from zwēne (“two”). Compare German zwischen.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tsvishn",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yi",
        "2": "preposition",
        "tr": "tsvishn"
      },
      "expansion": "צווישן • (tsvishn)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Yiddish",
  "lang_code": "yi",
  "pos": "prep",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Yiddish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Yiddish lemmas",
        "Yiddish prepositions",
        "Yiddish terms derived from Old High German",
        "Yiddish terms with redundant transliterations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "between, among"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "between",
          "between"
        ],
        [
          "among",
          "among"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡svɪʃn̩/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "צווישן"
}

Download raw JSONL data for צווישן meaning in Yiddish (1.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Yiddish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (074e7de and f1c2b61). 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.