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Yiddish words beginning with ג

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This page lists the 49 words beginning with ג in the Yiddish community dictionary. Each word has its own page with its full meaning and example sentence. This data is openly available at no cost for language preservation and research, with attribution to LanguageKnow. You can return to the home page or browse all languages at any time.

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49 words and 0 phrases — 49 entries in total.

Words (49)

ג (49)

גאָון (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

genius

גאָטעניו (Yiddish) intj Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

oh my God, God in heaven

גאָלדענע יויך (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

chicken soup (a golden soup with chicken as main ingredient)

גאָלדשמיד (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

goldsmith

גאָלמעסער (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

razor

גאָלמעסערל (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

razor blade

גאָלן (Yiddish) verb Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

to shave

גאָלקרעם (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

shaving cream

גאָמבע (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

chin

גבור (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

hero

גבוריש (Yiddish) adj Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

heroic

גוט (Yiddish) adj Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

good

גוי (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

a gentile, non-Jew.

גולם (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

golem

גוף (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

body

גט (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

divorce

גלח (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

priest (Christian, especially Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox)

גם (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

also

גמרא (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

Talmud

גן (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

garden

גנבֿ (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

thief, fraudster

גנבֿענען (Yiddish) verb Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

steal (to illegally take possession of)

געאָמעטריע (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

geometry (branch of mathematics)

געגנט (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

region, area

געדיכט (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

poem (literary piece written in verse)

געוויינטלעך (Yiddish) adj Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

usual, common, normal

געווינען (Yiddish) verb Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

win

געוועזן (Yiddish) adj Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

old (former)

געווער (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

weaponry

געזיכט (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

face

געטאָ (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

ghetto (area of a city in which Jews were concentrated)

געלב (Yiddish) adj Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

yellow

גענעטיק (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

genetics (branch of biology)

גענעטיש (Yiddish) adj Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

genetic (relating to genetics or genes)

געפֿערלעך (Yiddish) adj Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

dangerous

גערויש (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

noise

גערמאַנעץ (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

(male) German

געשוויר (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

abscess, ulcer

גראָ (Yiddish) adj Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

gray

גראָבן (Yiddish) verb Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

dig (to move hard-packed earth out of the way)

גראַמאַטיק (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

grammar

גראַמען (Yiddish) verb Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

to rhyme

גרויסקייט (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

size, greatness

גרונט (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

soil, earth

גריווקע (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

bang (hair that hangs down over the forehead)

גרין (Yiddish) adj Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

green

גרינס (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

vegetable

גרענעץ (Yiddish) noun Adapted from English Wiktionary — awaiting native speaker review

border; boundary

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