uday

Kabyle

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew יְהוּדָה (Yehûdâ, Judah), possibly via Latin iudaeus (Jewish, Jew). Doublet of tihudit.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /udaj/

Noun

uday m (plural udayen, feminine equivalent tudayt)

  1. Jew

Inflection

Inflection of uday
singular plural
free state uday udayen
annexed state wuday wudayen

References

  • Association Culturelle Numidya (2025), “Amawal, dictionnaire kabyle-français en ligne”, in Amawal[1], retrieved 2025
  • Dallet, Jean-Marie (1982), Dictionnaire kabyle-français: parler des At Mangellat, Algérie (in French), Paris, France

Tashelhit

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew יְהוּדָה (Yehûdâ, Judah), possibly via Latin iudaeus (Jewish, Jew). Doublet of ayhudiy and lihudi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /udaj/

Noun

uday m (plural udayn, feminine equivalent tudayt, Tifinagh spelling ⵓⴷⴰⵢ, Arabic spelling اوداي)

  1. Jew
    ايتّاوروّا د ف عُمَرْ بن الخَطَّاب يزد يان ووداي خ ووداين يس اس ينّا(...)
    ittawrwwa d f ɛumar bn lxaṭṭab iz d yaw wuday x wudayn is as inna (…)
    It is reported on the authority of Omar ben el-Khattab that a certain Jew said to him (…)

Inflection

Inflection of uday
singular plural
free state uday udayn
annexed state wuday wudayn

Derived terms

  • ddin n wudayn (Judaism)
  • lknist n wudayn, timzgida n wudayn (synagogue)
  • tudayt (Judaism)

Adjective

uday (feminine tudayt, masculine plural udayn, Tifinagh spelling ⵓⴷⴰⵢ, Arabic spelling اوداي)

  1. Jewish
    ايطّاف وداي يات تمغارت تودايت.
    iṭṭaf uday yat tmɣart tudayt
    The Jew had a Jewish wife.

See also

  • asdday (God)
  • aɛrab (Arab)
  • tallacunt (Hebrew argot)
  • taɛibrit (Hebrew)

References

  • Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 4 t—ẓ (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/4) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 2851b

Waray-Waray

Noun

udáy

  1. appellation to a young woman