žid

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *židъ, Proto-Slavic *židovinъ, from Italian giudeo, from Latin Iūdaeus, from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαῖος (Ioudaîos), from Hebrew יהודי (Yehudi).

Sense 2 comes from the stereotype of Jews as being stingy or greedy.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʒɪt]

žid m anim (female equivalent židovka)

1. Jew (by religion)
2. (figuratively, offensive, dated) miser, scrooge

• Žid

• “žid”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “žid”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “žid”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *židъ, Proto-Slavic *židovinъ, from Italian giudeo, from Latin Iūdaeus, from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαῖος (Ioudaîos), from Hebrew יהודי (Yehudi).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʒit/
• Homophone: Žid

žid m pers (genitive singular žida, nominative plural židovia, genitive plural židov, declension pattern of chlap)

1. Jew (by religion)

• židovka
• židovský
• židovstvo

• Žid

• “žid”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024