karidad

Ladino

Alternative forms

Noun

karidad f (Hebrew spelling קארידאד)[1]

  1. charity
    Synonyms: limozna, tsedaka
    • 2001, M. Mitchell Serels, editor, Semana Sepharad: The Lectures : Studies on Sephardic Jewry : Exploring the Spanish Roots of Sephardic Culture[1], J.E. Safra Institute of Sephardic Studies, Yeshiva University, page 9:
      "Elya guadrava el sekreto de mi afin de no avergonsarme en imazhinandome ke era una espesia de karidad ke mos era echa."
      She was keeping my secret so as to avoid shaming me into thinking that it was a kind of charity that was made to us.

References

  1. ^ karidad”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasury of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim