Ladino, or Judeo-Spanish, preserves a rich vocabulary for dress, household textiles and personal appearance. Words for silk, linen, woollen cloth, velvet and…
Judeo-Spanish, or Ladino, carries the history of Sephardic migration in its vocabulary. Words travelled with families from Iberia to the eastern Mediterranean,…
In Judeo-Spanish, or Ladino, bokado refers first to something taken by the mouth: a bite, a mouthful, or a morsel of food. The same word can also describe a…
In Judeo-Spanish, or Ladino, sobre is a small word with two useful grammatical lives. It can act as a preposition meaning “on”, “over”, or “about”, and it can…
In Judeo-Spanish, or Ladino, alkunya means a surname, family name or inherited name identifying a household. The word belongs to the vocabulary of Sephardic…
Ladino, also called Judeo-Spanish, carries centuries of Sephardic experience in compact, memorable phrases. Its proverbs often join practical advice with…
The Hebrew word kadosh means “holy”, “sacred”, or “set apart”. Its spelling varies in English transliteration—qadosh, kadosh, and occasionally qadosh in…
Judeo-Spanish, or Ladino, carries traces of the many places where Sephardic Jews lived after their expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula. Spanish forms the…
Judeo-Spanish vocabulary often carries several layers of history at once. The word pishkado, also written peshkado or piskado in some sources, is a familiar…