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Yiddish Translator
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JewYid
Boston, MA
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Check out new Yiddish words I find on Twitter at #NotInTheDictionary. Tweets in 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 and 💂
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| 3 گھنٹے |
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That's why we named her Orla... twitter.com/AP/status/1116…
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@LikeIanButAlsoL
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This late 19th century ladino periodical's title font is absolutely bizarre, good to know ppl were *way* too creative with fonts well before the Microsoft Word era pic.twitter.com/K2ane8IRG0
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| 6 گھنٹے |
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Sheindele.
Need to tweak the translation a bit still
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| 6 گھنٹے |
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I'd have to ask. I'm translating now from handwritten autobiography. I'd guess referencing 1900-1910s?
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| 6 گھنٹے |
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From then on she was called Sheindele the Kupke.
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| 6 گھنٹے |
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put on a Kupke, a wig was too modern. On the second day, when she was with her girlfriends, playing in the sand and took off the Kupke and poured in sand. When her mother found her with a bare head, she screamed, “The kupke, where is the kupke?”
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| 6 گھنٹے |
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kopke קאָפּקע
"They called her Sheindele the Kupke. When I asked why
they call her the Kupke, I was told when she got married at 13 years old and
normally every girl got her pretty braids cut off in the morning after the wedding,
so they cut off Sheindele’s braids and
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| 6 گھنٹے |
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very good. yes, fits the description of a married woman who didn't want to wear a wig because it was too modern.
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| 8 گھنٹے |
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In thinking of the situation that this might be said, a Hebrew expression popped in my head:
B'makom she-ein anashim, hishtadel lih'yot ish.
.במקום שאין אנשים השתדל להיות איש
In a place where there are no worthy men, try to be a man.
But Yiddish? Thoughts @Rivnitz
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| 9 گھنٹے |
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Anyone know what a kopke looks like?
(woman's cap / headdress)
קאָפּקע
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| 9 گھنٹے |
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| 9 گھنٹے |
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גלעטלינג
is listed as a neologism. Do Chassidim say this word, Rivnitz? pic.twitter.com/XLMqAdB2YH
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| 9 گھنٹے |
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shtub-khaye - house pet
שטוב־חיה
@Rivnitz #Yiddish #NotInTheDictionary #Nationalpetsday pic.twitter.com/4UQodThyLK
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| 9 گھنٹے |
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| 10 گھنٹے |
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What's a house pet in Yiddish?
@Rivnitz #Nationalpetsday
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