שלימזל
Yiddish
FWOTD – 15 September 2016
Etymology
From Middle High German slim (“crooked”) and Hebrew מַזָּל (mazzāl, “luck”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃlɪˈmazl̩/
Derived terms
- שלימזלניק (shlimazlnik, “unlucky, misfortunate”)
Descendants
- → English: shemozzle, schlimazel
- → German: Schlamassel
Noun
שלימזל • (shlimazl) m, plural שלימזלען (shlimazlen), feminine שלימזלניצע (shlimazlnitse)
- unlucky person, luckless person, person with perpetual bad luck
- clumsy person
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- ער איז אַ פּאָעט, אַ דראַמאַטורג, אַ קאָמפּאָזיטאָר, אַ נישקשהדיקער זינגער — און פֿאָרט אין דער זעלבער צײַט אַ נעבעכדיקער שלימזל, אַזוי ווי טרײַנסטמאַנס העלד.
- er iz a poet, a dramaturg, a kompozitor, a nishkoshediker zinger — un fort in der zelber tsayt a nebekhdiker shlimazl, azoy vi traynstmans held.
- He is a poet, a playwright, a composer, a not-so-bad singer – and then at the same time a miserable schlimazel, like Treinstman’s protagonist.
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Descendants
- English: schlimazel
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