Names of the Jewish people
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This article lists the names of the Jewish people in various linguistic contexts. See the article Jew and the Footnotes for etymological and other information. This article does not cover ethnic slurs.
Hebrew language
In the Hebrew language:
Yiddish language
In Yiddish:
Ancient Greek language
In Ancient Greek:
Ancient Egyptian language
In Ancient Egyptian:
- Possibly Habiru2; Ishrail (Israel, cf. Israel Stela)
Africaans
In Africaans:
- Jood
Albanian
In Albanian:
- Çifut
Arabic
In Arabic
- ﻲﺩﻭﻬﻴﻠﺍ
Bulgarian
In Bulgarian:
- ЕВРЕИН
Catalan
In Catalan:
- Jueu
Chinese
In Chinese:
- 猶太人, Chinese, Traditional
- 犹太人, Chinese, Simplified
Croatian
In Croatian:- Židov
Czech
In Czech:- Žid
Dutch
In Dutch:- Jood
Esperanto
In Esperanto:- Judoj
Estonian
In Estonian:- Juut
Finnish
In Finnish:- Juutalainen
French
In French:- Juif
German
In German:- Jude
Hungarian
In Hungarian:- Zsidó
Italian
In Italian:- Ebreo
Japanese
In Japanese:- ユダヤ人
Korean
In Korean:- 유태인
Latin language
In Latin:
- Iudeus1
Latvian
In Latvian:- Ebrejs
Norwegian
In Norwegian:- Jøde
Persian
In Persian:- ﯽﺩﻭﻬﻴ
Polish
In Polish:- Żyd
Portuguese
In Portuguese:- Judeu
Romanian
In Romanian:- Evreu
Slovak
In Slovak language:- Žid
Spanish
In Spanish:- Judío
Swahili
In Swahili:- Yahudi
Swedish
In Swedish:- Jude
Thai
In Thai:- คนยิว
Turkish
In Turkish:- Yahudi
English language
In English:
Russian language
In Russian:
- Евреи, Yevrei2 (pl): Typically denotes the ethnicity (национальность - natsional'nost')
- Иудеи, Iudei1 (pl): Typically denotes the followers of Judaism.
Religious context
In religion:
No longer in use
- In the period preceding and during the British Mandate of Palestine, Jews who lived there were called (and also called themselves) Palestinian Jews or Palestinians, but after the emergence of Arab Palestinian nationalism in the 1920s and especially after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the term "Palestinians" came to be used almost exlusively for Palestinian Arabs. (See Definitions of Palestine:Palestinian and Zionism)
