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Hebrew
Pronunciation
Noun
ירושה / יְרֻשָּׁה • (yerushá) f
- inheritance
Tanach, Deuteronomy 2:5, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:אַל תִּתְגָּרוּ בָם כִּי לֹא אֶתֵּן לָכֶם מֵאַרְצָם עַד מִדְרַךְ כַּף רָגֶל כִּי יְרֻשָּׁה לְעֵשָׂו נָתַתִּי אֶת הַר שֵׂעִיר- al titgaru vam ki lo eten lakhem me'artsam ad midrakh kaf ragel ki y'rusha l'Esav natati et har Se'ir.
- not to provoke them. For I will not give you of their land so much as a foot can tread on; I have given the hill country of Seir as a possession to Esau.
- legacy, heritage
Yiddish
Etymology
From Hebrew ירושה / יְרֻשָּׁה.
Pronunciation
Noun
ירושה • (yerushe) f, plural ירושות (yerushes)
- inheritance
2020 April 24, Mikhail Krutikov, “װי פּאָליטיש זײַנען ייִדישע לימודים?”, in Forverts:דאַװידאָװיטש האָט װײַטער איבערגעגעבן די דאָזיקע אינטעלעקטועלע ירושה צו פּראָפֿעסאָר רות װײַס, װעלכע האָט לאַנגע יאָרן פֿאַרנומען די קאַטעדרע פֿאַר ייִדיש אינעם האַרװאַרד־אוניװערסיטעט.- davidovitsh hot vayter ibergegebn di dozike intelektuele yerushe tsu profesor rus vays, velkhe hot lange yorn farnumen di katedre far yidish inem harvard-universitet.
- Dawidowicz further passed on the aforementioned ideological inheritance to Professor Ruth Weiss, who for many years occupied the university chair for Yiddish at Harvard University.
- heritage