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Yiddish
Noun
רעליגיע • (religye) f, plural רעליגיעס (religyes)
- religion
- Synonym: דת (das)
2020 April 24, Mikhail Krutikov, “װי פּאָליטיש זײַנען ייִדישע לימודים?”, in Forverts:אין סאָװעטן־פֿאַרבאַנד איז ייִדיש דערקלערט געװאָרן ווי „די‟ ייִדישע שפּראַך, אַנטקעגן העברעיִש, װאָס איז געװאָרן טריף־פּסול װי די שפּראַך פֿון רעליגיע און ציוניזם.- in sovetn-farband iz yidish derklert gevorn vi „di‟ yidishe shprakh, antkegn hebreish, vos iz gevorn treyf-posl vi di shprakh fun religye un tsienizm.
- In the Soviet Union Yiddish was declared to be "the" Jewish language, opposed to Hebrew, which became anathema as the language of religion and Zionism.