释义 |
‖ trefa, trifa Jewish Ritual.|ˈtreɪfə, ˈtraɪfə| Also trephah, tripha(h, (tryfer), trayf, treff, treife, trifah, etc. [repr. Heb. ṭ⊇rēphâ, Rabbin. ṭ⊇rêphâ, lit. ‘that which is torn’, flesh of an animal torn (or pounced upon fatally) by a wild beast (Lev. xvii. 15); f. ṭāraf to tear, rend. In later use the word passed into the extended sense now used.] Flesh meat forbidden to be eaten by Jews because the animal has not been slaughtered in the manner prescribed by the Law; also trefa meat. Opposed to kosher. Chiefly attrib. or as adj., not prepared according to the Law, applied to any food. Also transf.
1837Brit. & Foreign Rev. V. 424 The Jews call..treff all that is prohibited to be used as food. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour II. 120 Not being particular about eating ‘tryfer,’—that is, meat which has been killed by a Christian. 1868Standard 15 Dec. 6 The defendant..pleaded..that meat killed and sold by a person not so licensed, was not ‘kosher’ meat, but ‘trefa’, and..unlawful to be eaten by Jews. 1892Zangwill Childr. Ghetto I. 88 Even pious people eat tripha cheese and butter. Ibid. I. 173 We decided that the fowl was tripha and could not be eaten. Ibid. III. 39 Their money is kosher; they are tripha. 1906Jewish Encycl. XII. 109 s.v. Ṭerefah, ‘Ṭerefah’ in a broader sense includes also a regularly but unskilfully killed animal, in contradistinction to Nebelah. 1907I. Zangwill Ghetto Comedies 68 The tripha meat cooked in Simon's mess-tin. 1911Daily News 11 Feb. 4 The Shechita Board notifies the Jewish public that the meat killed and sold under the supervision of the second rabbi is trifa—prohibited to be eaten by Jews. 1961A. W. Moss Valiant Crusade vi. 81 If more than one cut is necessary..the carcase is rejected as ‘Trifah’, i.e. unfit for Jewish..food. 1966H. Kemelman Saturday the Rabbi went Hungry (1967) xix. 115 When a utensil becomes tref, the way you cleanse it is to bury it in the earth. 1975G. Meir My Life i. 5 He served in the Russian army for another thirteen years, and never once..did he touch treife (non-kosher) food. 1978I. B. Singer Shosha ix. 168 To me he's as trayf as pork. |