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Sephardic

Sephardic adjective: of or relating to the Sephardi Jews.

Adjective

Sephardic (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the Sephardi Jews.
    • A Sephardic romance, composed before the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, fills the Lost Chord Music Store on the northwest corner of Spinoza Square and Sixth Avenue. ...
      The store clerk scribbles himself a to-do note and lifts the stylus back to the start of “¿Por qué lloras blanca niña?,” lowers...2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 119
    • The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery.2024 October 13, Reuters, “Centuries-old mystery of Christopher Columbus’s true origins revealed in study”, in CNN
    Synonyms:
    Sephardi

Sephardic meaning in Malayalam, Arabic and Persian

Sephardic in Malayalam

Sephardic
സഫറാദി saphaṟādi

Sephardic in Arabic

relating to the Sephardi Jews
سِفَارْدِيّ sifārdiyy

Sephardic in Persian

relating to the Sephardi Jews
سفاردی sefârdi

Synonyms of Sephardic

Forms of Sephardic

alternative uncommonSefardic

Origin of Sephardic

From Sephardi + -ic.

Questions about Sephardic

What does Sephardic mean?
Sephardic means of or relating to the Sephardi Jews.
What is Sephardic in Malayalam?
Sephardic in Malayalam is സഫറാദി (saphaṟādi). See Sephardic meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is Sephardic?
Sephardic is an adjective.

Words near Sephardic in the dictionary

  1. sepg.
  2. sephacryl
  3. Sepharad
  4. Sepharadim
  5. Sephardi
  6. Sephardic
  7. Sephardim
  8. Sephardis
  9. Sephared
  10. sepharose
  11. Sepharvite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Sephardic (page history and authors); സഫറാദി (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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