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Yiddish
Etymology
From לעבן (lebn, “live”) + געבליבען (gebliben, “remaining”), with the ending preserving the inflection of the adjective.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɫɛ.bn̩.ɡɛˈbʎɪ.bə.nəʁ/
Noun
לעבן־געבליבענער • (lebn-geblibener) m, plural לעבן־געבליבענע (lebn-geblibene), feminine לעבן־געבליבענע (lebn-geblibene)
- survivor
2014, Jordan Kutsim, “ווער איז אַ „לעבן־געבליבענער פֿונעם חורבן?‟ [Who is a "Holocaust survivor"?]”, in Der Forverts:כאָטש מע האָט וועגן הערץ־סאָמער אַ סך געשריבן ווי די עלטסטע לעבנסגעבליבענע פֿונעם חורבן, האַלט איך, אַז ס׳איז דאָ נאָך אַן עלטערער לעבן־געבליבענער דאָ אין ניו־יאָרק.- khotsh me hot vegn herts-somer a sakh geshribn vi di eltste lebnsgeblibene funem khurbm, halt ikh, az s'iz do nokh an elterer lebn-geblibener do in nyu-york.
- Although much has been written about Herz-Sommer as the oldest survivor of the Holocaust, I think there is still an older survivor here in New York.
Usage notes
This noun declines for case.