Israeli

See also: Israëli, Ísraeli, and israelí

English

Etymology

From Israel +‎ -i.

Pronunciation
  • enPR: ĭz-rā'lē, IPA(key): /ɪzˈɹeɪli/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪli

Noun

Israeli (plural Israelis)

  1. A person from Israel or of Israeli descent.

Translations

Adjective

Israeli (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Israel, the Israeli people.

Derived terms

Translations

Proper noun

Israeli

  1. The modern Hebrew language.
    • 2010, Joshua A. Fishman, Ofelia García, Handbook of Language & Ethnic Identity, volume 2, page 73:
      Thus, when most native Israeli-speakers speak Israeli, their intonation is much more similar to that of Yiddish, the mother tongue of most revivalists, than to that of Arabic or any other language belonging to the Semitic branch […]

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Afrikaans

Noun

Israeli (plural Israeli's, diminutive Israeli'tjie)

  1. Israeli (person from Israel or of Israeli descent)

See also
  • Israeliet

German

Etymology

From Hebrew יִשְׂרְאֵלִי, possibly after English Israeli. Equivalent to Israel +‎ -i.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɪsʁaˈeːli/, /iːsʁaˈeːli/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

Israeli m (strong, genitive Israelis or Israeli, plural Israelis or (dated) Israeli, feminine Israelin or Israeli)

  1. Israeli (native or inhabitant of Israel; male or unspecified sex)

Declension
Declension of Israeli [masculine, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Israeli die Israelis, Israeli1
genitive eines des Israelis, Israeli der Israelis, Israeli1
dative einem dem Israeli den Israelis, Israeli1
accusative einen den Israeli die Israelis, Israeli1

1Dated.

Noun

Israeli f (genitive Israeli, plural Israelis or (dated) Israeli)

  1. Alternative form of Israelin (“Israeli woman”)

Declension
Declension of Israeli [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Israeli die Israelis, Israeli1
genitive einer der Israeli der Israelis, Israeli1
dative einer der Israeli den Israelis, Israeli1
accusative eine die Israeli die Israelis, Israeli1

1Dated.

Further reading
  • “Israeli” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “Israeli” in Duden online
  • “Israeli” in Duden online

Latin

Proper noun

Isrāēlī

  1. dative singular of Isrāēl

Swahili

Pronunciation
  • Audio (Kenya)(file)

Proper noun

Israeli

  1. (uncommon) Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)
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