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Yehudit

Yehudit proper noun: a female given name from Hebrew.

Proper noun

Yehudit

  1. A female given name from Hebrew.
    • My mother was called Yehudit by her Russian Jewish parents when she was born in England, but the intransigent Englishman in the registry office had changed it first to Judith and then to Edith ( "good English names" ) - leaving the resultant impression that Jews were not even allowed to keep their...1994, Erica Jong, Fear of Fifty, page 61

Forms of Yehudit

alternative formYehudis

Origin of Yehudit

Transliteration of Hebrew יְהוּדִית (y'hudít, “Judith”). Doublet of Judith.

Questions about Yehudit

What does Yehudit mean?
Yehudit means a female given name from Hebrew.
What part of speech is Yehudit?
Yehudit is a proper noun.

Words near Yehudit in the dictionary

  1. Yehuda
  2. Yehudi
  3. Yehudi lights
  4. Yehudim
  5. Yehudis
  6. Yehudit
  7. Yei
  8. yeibichai
  9. yeibichais
  10. yeild
  11. Yeji

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