جهود

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (yhwt' /⁠jahūd⁠/, “Jew”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒa.ˈhuːð], [d͡ʒu.ˈhuːð]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒo̞.ɦóːd̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒo̞.ɦóːd̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒʊ.wóːd̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒu.wʊ́ːd̪̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒo.ɦúːd̪̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒu.ɦɵ́d̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	jahūḏ, juhūḏ
Dari reading?	johōd
Iranian reading?	johud
Tajik reading?	juhüd

Noun

جهود • (johud) (plural جهودان (johudân))

1. (archaic) Jew
2. (now offensive, ethnic slur) yid, kike

Synonyms

• یهود (yahud)
• یهودی (yahudi)
• کلیمی (kalimi)

Descendants

• Judeo-Tat: жугьур (çuhur)
  • ⇒ Judeo-Tat: жугьури (çuhuri)
    • → English: Juhuri, Juwuri, Juvuri
• → Azerbaijani: cuhud
• → Middle Armenian: ջհուտ (ǰhut), ջհուդ (ǰhud), ջֆուտ (ǰfut)
  • Armenian: ջհուդ (ǰhud)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: जहूद (jahūd)

  Urdu: جَہُود (jahūd)

• → Kipchak: ǵuhut
• → Ottoman Turkish: چفوت (çıfut), چفود (çıfud)
  • Turkish: Çıfıt
  • → Aromanian: cifut
  • → Albanian: çifut
  • → Bulgarian: чифу́т (čifút)
  • → Czech: Čifut
  • → Greek: τσιφούτης (tsifoútis)
  • → Romanian: ciufut
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Latin script: Čìfutin

    Cyrillic script: Чѝфутин

  • → Slovene: Čífut

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “ǰahūd”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press