Names of the Jewish people

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Template:Jew This article lists the ethnonyms of the Jewish people in various linguistic contexts. See the article Jew and the Footnotes for etymological and other information. This article does not cover ethnic slurs.

Afrikaans Jood
Albanian Hebré,
Arabic يهودي Yahudi (sl.),يهود Yahud (pl.)
Bulgarian Евреин, Evrein
Catalan Jueu
Chinese 猶太人, Chinese, Traditional
犹太人, Chinese, Simplified, pinyin: Yóutài Rén
Croatian Židov
Czech Žid
Dutch Jood
Ancient Egyptian Possibly Habiru2; Ishrail (Israel, cf. Israel Stela)
English Jews1
Hebrews2
Israelites or Children of Israel3
The People of the Book (typically in religious contexts)
Esperanto Judoj
Estonian Juut
Finnish Juutalainen
French Juif (masc.), Juive (fem.)
Georgian: ებრელი, Ebreli
German: Jude (masc.), Jüdin (fem.)
Ancient Greek Template:Polytonic, Ioudaios1
Template:Polytonic, Hebraios (from Evrei)2
Hebrew יהודים, Yehudim1
עבריים, Ivriyim2
בני ישׂראל, Bnei Israel3
Hungarian Zsidó
Indonesian Yahudi
Italian Ebreo
Japanese ユダヤ人, Yudaya-jin
Korean 유태인, Yudai-in
Ladino djudio, Judio (singular)
los ebreos (the Jews)
Latin Iudeus1
Latvian Ebrejs
Norwegian Jøde
Persian ﯽﺩﻭﻬﻴ, Yahūdī
Polish Żyd
Portuguese Judeu
Romanian Evreu
Russian Еврей, Yevrey (sl.), Евреи, Yevrei2 (pl.): Typically denotes the ethnicity (национальность - natsional'nost')
Иудей, Iudey (sl.), Иудеи, Iudei1 (pl.): Typically denotes the followers of Judaism.
Serbian Јевреј Jevrej
Slovak Žid
Spanish Judío
Swahili Yahudi
Swedish Jude
Thai คนยิว
Tibetan Yahutapa
Turkish Yahudi
Yiddish ייד, Yid (sl.), יידן, Yidn (pl.)1

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See also

Footnotes

  • 1 Yehudi, Jewish, a "Judaean", "from the land of Yehuda (Judah, Judea)".
  • 2 Ivri, Hebrew, "one who passes over", a reference to the Biblical patriarch Abraham (or possibly Eber).
  • 3 Israel, "one who has struggled with God", the name given to the Biblical patriarch Jacob.