Yemenite
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6.7
- adjective
- /ˈjɛmɪnaɪt/
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yemenita
- And on my, my on my dad's side is all like Yemenite food, which is a lot of bready stuff like Jah Noon and Malawa, like stuff like that.
- Yemenite Jews
Examples
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This is a Yemenite Jew and he's working on a piece of jewelry.
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Are you a Yemenite Jew?
Blog text (24) -
Maybe you have me confused with another Yemenite singer from Israel.
Fiction book (1996) -
You, coming from the Yemenite tradition, should know that music can be learned and preserved without being written down anywhere.
Fiction book (1996) -
They talked of inconsequential things, a popular new artist, a Yemenite restaurant, the weather.
Fiction book (1990) -
Tali had been born and raised in Haifa, where English was taught in school, but Arabic had been spoken in Tali's home, the first language of her Yemenite parents.
Fiction book (1996) -
Simha Zaramati Asta was born and still lives in the Yemenite Quarter of Tel Aviv.
Fiction book (1994) -
The issue can be framed as follows: are the various Jewish country-of-origin groups in Israel (such as Yemenite Jews, Russian Jews, Tunisian Jews, and others) best thought of as "ethnic groups," or may some of these be better understood to be "diasporas?"
Academic text (2006) -
A dark-skinned Yemenite teenager with a silver filigreed chain dangling from his nostril shouted to no one in particular, "I want the Absorption Ministry to give me an Audi too."
Fiction book (1995) -
The Yemenite cuisine is known for its rich spices and unique flavors.
Synonyms
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4.6
From Yemen or about its people and culture
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Yemenite comes from the country name Yemen and the ending -ite, which makes a word mean 'from' a place. So Yemenite describes something that comes from Yemen or is connected to its people and culture.