Diccionario Yidish – English

Letra ‘D’

Aprendiendo Yidish

• Danken Got! – Thank G-d!
• Darf min gehn in kolledj? – For this I went to college? Usually said when describing a menial task.
• Davenen – Pray
• Deigeh nisht! – Don’t worry!
• Der mensch trakht un Gott lahkht – Man thinks (plans) and God laughs
• Der oyg – Eye
• Der tate oysn oyg – Just like his father
• Der universitet – University
• Der zokn – Old man
• Derech erets – Respect
• Derlebn – To live to see (I should only live to see him get married, already!)
• Der oysdruk – Expression
• Dershtikt zolstu veren! – You should choke on it!
• Di khemye – Chemistry
• Di skeyne – Old  woman
• Di Skeynes – Old women
• Di skeynim – Old men
• Die goldene medina – the golden country
• Die untershte sheereh – the bottom line
• Dine Essen teg – Yeshiva students would arrange to be fed by various householders on a daily basis in different houses. (Lit., Eat days)
• Dingen – Bargain, hire, engage, lease, rent
• Dis fayntin shneg – It’s starting to snow
• Dis fayntin zoraiganin – It’s starting to rain
• Dos gefelt mir – This pleases me
• Dos hartz hot mir gezogt – My heart told me. I predicted it.
• Dos iz alts – That’s all.
• Dos zelbeh – The same
• Drai mir nit kain kop! – Don’t bother me! (Lit., Don’t twist my head)
• Drai zich! – Keep moving!
• Draikop – Scatterbrain
• Dreidal – Spinning top used in a game that is associated with the holiday of Chanukah.
• Drek – Human dung, feces, manure or excrement; inferior merchandise or work; insincere talk or excessive flattery
• Drek auf dem teller – Mean spirited, valueless Lit.crap on a plate.
• Drek mit Leber – Absolutely nothing; it’s not worth anything.
• Druchus – The sticks (way out in the wild)
• Du fangst shoyn on? – Are you starting up again?
• Du kannst nicht auf meinem rucken pishen unt mir sagen class es regen ist. – You can’t pee on my back and tell me that it’s rain!
• Dumkop – Dumbbell, dunce (Lit., Dumb head)
• Durkhfall – A flop or failure
• Dybbuk – Soul condemned to wander for a time in this world because of its sins. (To escape the perpetual torments inflicted upon it by evil spirits, the dybbuk seeks refuge in the body of some pious man or woman over whom the demons have no power. The dybbuk is a Cabalistic conception)

03 de Shvat de 5772 – 27 de Enero de 2012