Sephardic
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8.5
- adjective
- /səˈfɑrdɪk/
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sefardí
- The first Jews in America were Sephardic Jews who arrived from Spain and Portugal.
- Sephardic Jews
OK, so they said by the DNA, it's very highly likely that he was a Sephardic Spaniard.
- OK, so they said by the DNA, it's very highly likely that he was a Sephardic Spaniard.
- So he's Sephardic and Ashkenaz and my friends, like only you could find a Jewish European man living in New York City.
- Well, what do you, what do people think about the, the, the, the Sephardic Jews?
Examples
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The first Jews in America are Sephardic Jews.
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A group of 23 Sephardic Jews arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654 from Recife, Brazil.
Academic text (2006) -
I should always be clear that Sephardic Jews are different.
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Two major groups are the Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews.
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OK, so they said by the DNA, it's very highly likely that he was a Sephardic Spaniard.
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Today this disease is found in Sephardic Jews and the Arabs of Saudi Arabia.
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In some Hanseatic cities, there were both Sephardic and Ashkenazi communities.
Blog text (7) -
Aron was a Sephardic Jew from Portugal, who wrote a book in Hebrew about prize fighting.
Academic text (2003) -
For the new spoken Hebrew, they looked to the Sephardic dialect, believed to preserve a more authentic, precise rendering of ancient Hebrew.
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Today, about 82 percent of the world's Jews are descended from Ashkenazic Jews, 11 percent from Sephardic Jews, and 7 percent from Oriental Jews.
Academic text (1993)
Compounds
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7.1
A person of Jewish background whose family comes from Spain, Portugal, or North Africa
Surface Forms
Morphology
Sephardic = Sephard + ic
The suffix -ic is productive, but the Sephard- stem is a historical ethnonym that is not a transparent English base for most learners.
Etymology
Sephardic comes from the Hebrew place name Sepharad, which means 'Spain'. So Sephardic as an adjective describes Jewish traditions, styles, or communities that come from Spain and nearby Portugal.