List of Jewish ethnonyms


An ethnonym is the name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms and autonyms or endonyms.
This article does not cover ethnic slurs.

List

Albaniançifut
Albanianhebre
Albanianizraelit
Arabicيهودي Yahūdī ; يهود Yahūd بنو إسرائيل Banū Isra’il عبري ʕibrī
Armenianհրեա hrea ; հրեաներ
BasqueJudu or judutar
BengaliYeuhudi
BulgarianЕвреин, evrein ; еврейка, evreika ; евреи, evrei ; юдеи, yudei
BosnianJevrej,Jevrejin, Židov, Ćifut, Ćifo/Ćifko or Kurdish
CatalanJueu ; jueus, jueva ; jueves
Chinese猶太人, Chinese, Traditional
Chinese犹太人, Chinese, Simplified, pinyin: Yóutài Rén
CornishYedhoweth
CroatianŽidov
CzechŽid or žid
DanishJøde ; Jøder
DutchJood
EnglishJews, see Jew 1
EnglishHebrews2
EnglishIsraelites or Children of Israel3
EsperantoJudoj. L.L. Zamenhof described himself as hebreo.
EstonianJuut
FinnishJuutalainen
FrenchJuif ; Juive, old formal term israélite
GalegoXudeu ; Xudía ; Xudeus ; Xudías
Georgianებრაელი, Ebraeli
GermanJude ; Jüdin ; Juden
GreekἸουδαῖος, Ioudaios1
GreekἙβραῖος, Hebraios 2
GreekἸσραηλίτης, Israelites 3
Hebrewיהודי, Yehudi ; יהודיה, Yehudia ;יהודים, Yehudim/Yehudioth 1
Hebrewעברי, Ivri ; עבריה, Ivria ; עברים, Ivrim/Ivrioth2
Hebrewבני ישׂראל, Bnei Yisrael 3
HindiYahudi
Hungarianzsidó
Icelandicgyðingur
Indonesian/MalayYahudi, Banī Israel
IrishGiúdach
ItalianGiudeo ; giudei ;
ItalianEbreo ; ebrei ; ebrea ; ebree
Japaneseユダヤ人, Yudayajin
Korean유태인, Yutae-in
KurdishCihû, Mûsayî/مووسایی, Cûleke/جوله که
Ladinodjudio, Judio
Ladinolos ebreos
LatinIudaeus1
LatvianEbrejs, ebrejiete, ebreji, ebrejietes. The terms žīds, žīdiete, žīdi and žīdietes were also used alongside up until World War II as a neutral ethnonym. However, post-World War II mainly due to it being used in the Nazi propaganda and the influence of Russian, the term has become to be traditionally considered derogatory.
LithuanianŽydas, žydai
NorwegianJøde
OjibweZhoodawi or Joowiwi
Persianجهود or يهود -- Johud or Yahūd
Persianکلیمی, Kalimi a follower of Kalim Allah, also a euphemism for Johud.
PolishŻyd, Żydzi, Żydowie, Żydy
PortugueseJudeu ; judeus ; judia ; judias. Also hebreus and israelitas
RomanianEvreu, israelit, jidov, ovrei, jidan
RussianЕврей, Yevrey ; Евреи, Yevrei2 : Typically denotes the ethnicity; жид, zhid, жидовка, zhidovka ; Russian language being rich in inflection, there is a large number of pejorative forms derived from the two basic ones.
RussianИудей, Iudey ; Иудеи, Iudei1 : Typically denotes the followers of Judaism.
Scottish GaelicIùdach Iùdaich
SerbianЈевреј Jevrej
SlovakŽid
SpanishJudío Judía Judíos Judías
SpanishHebreo Hebrea Hebreos Hebreas
SpanishIsraelita Israelitas as in "Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina".
SwahiliYahudi
SwedishJude
TagalogHudyo, Israelita
Thaiคนยิว, khon yiu
TibetanYahutapa
UkrainianЖид ; Жиди
UrduYahudi ; Yahud
Vietnamesengười Do Thái
TurkishYahudi, Çıfıt something related to, or a follower of Judaism, latter usually considered pejorative.
TurkishMusevi, a follower of Moses, also a euphemism for Yahudi.
Turkishİbrani, a Hebrew.
WelshIddewon
Yiddishאיד,ייִד Yid1 ; ייִדן', Yidn

Obsolete

Jews were often called Palestinians, but after the emergence of Arab Palestinian nationalism and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the term "Palestinians" came to be used almost exclusively for Palestinian Arabs.

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