单词 | to be mishpocha |
释义 | > as lemmasto be mishpocha In Jewish usage: an extended family group. to be mishpocha: to belong to the same extended family, to be related. ΚΠ 1859 J. Martin tr. J. H. Kurtz Hist. Old Covenant II. 9 Probably they did not increase to a sufficient extent to be able to claim the right of forming independent Mishpachoth. 1865 W. L. Alexander Kitto's Cycl. Biblical Lit. (ed. 3) I. 554/2 Each Mishpachah comprised a number of familiæ, A.V. ‘Houses’. 1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto II. 177 Moses had sent Solomon round to inform the Mishpochah of his affliction. 1946 Commentary May 58/1 It [sc. a Jewish stationery store] has an arched eyebrow for the equally poor but dishonest black sheep of the mishpocha—the bare-looking store..fronts for a backroom bookie place and fools nobody, not even the police. 1967 J. W. Carrier in M. Mindlin & C. Bermant Explorations 140 The survey was able to establish the closeness of the mishpocha, especially the wife's sisters or the single daughter's aunts, to the family. 1968 L. Rosten Joys of Yiddish 248 Parents, grandparents, siblings, uncles, aunts, cousins (first, second, once removed), all form part of that extended family Jews call mishpocheh. 1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 8 Nov. l1 My grandmother..always used to say we were descended from Genghis Khan... So you see, Lady Di, we're mishpocha. 1992 Time 27 July 73/3 Why couldn't detective Melanie Griffith go undercover among Brooklyn's Hasidic Jews and become one of the mishpocha? < as lemmas |
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