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Yiddish
Etymology
From Slavic (compare Czech nebohý), from Proto-Slavic *nebogъ.
Pronunciation
Adverb
נעבעך • (nebekh)
- sadly, unfortunately (indicates something to the detriment of the subject of the sentence)
ער האָט נעבעך נישט קיין שיך.- er hot nebekh nisht keyn shikh.
- He doesn't have any shoes, poor thing.
- 1936, Mordechai Gebirtig, ס׳ברענט ("It is burning"):
ס׳ברענט, ברידערלעך, ס׳ברענט! / אוי אונדזער אָרעם שטעטל נעבעך ברענט!- s'brent, briderlekh, s'brent! / oy undzer orem shtetl nebekh brent!
- It's burning, brothers, it's burning! Oh, what a pity, our poor shtetl is burning!
Noun
נעבעך • (nebekh) m
- unfortunate person; unhappy person; poor person
Descendants