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Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian (yhwt' /jahūd/, “Jew”).
Pronunciation
| Readings
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| Classical reading?
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jahūḏ, juhūḏ
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| Dari reading?
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johōd
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| Iranian reading?
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johud
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| Tajik reading?
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juhüd
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Noun
جهود • (johud) (plural جهودان (johudân) or جهود‌ها (johud-hâ))
- (now offensive, ethnic slur) Jew; (as a slur) yid, kike
- Synonyms: یهود (yahud), کلیمی (kalimi)
c. 1126, Abū'l-Fażl Rašīd-ud-Dīn Maybudī, کشف الاسرار و عدة الابرار:و مفسران گفتند این آن گه بود که مصطفی در مدینه شد و جهودان مدینه را بر دین اسلام خواند، و طمع در اسلام ایشان بست و همچنین جماعتی از انصار بودند در مدینه که ایشان را با جهودان نزدیکی بود […]- u mufassirān guftand īn ān gah būd ki mustafā dar madīna šud u juhūdān-i madīna rā bar dīn-i islām xwānd, u tam' dar islām-i ēšān bast u hamčunīn jamā'atē az ansār būdand dar madīna ki ēšān rā bā juhūdān nazdīkī būd
- And the exegetes said this is when Muṣṭafā went to Medina, called the Jews of Medina to the religion of Islam, and hoped for their conversion, and in addition, there was a group of Anṣār in Medina who were close to the Jews
Usage notes
- This word is now offensive.
Descendants
References
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “ǰahūd”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press