Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tsuris

/tsʊɹɪs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tsuris
IPA: /tsʊɹɪs/

6

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Problems or troubles.

American usage; Colloquial; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"You think you got troubles? You should go down there and talk to some of those schnorrers. Still, what chutzbah^([sic]). It's like the Jewish moral sense, emerging from all that tsuris."
"“Sounds to me, my friend, like you got some tsuris. Not full grown yet, not gehoketh tsuris, but tsuris.”"
"1997, Hilary Henkin and David Mamet, Wag the Dog, New Line Cinema Stanley Moss: I don't need this gig, I don't need the money, I don't need the tsuris ... I don't need it."

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish צרות (tsores), plural of צרה (tsore, “trouble, problem”), from Hebrew צָרָה (tsará, “trouble, tragedy, calamity”).

Origin

Source language: Yiddish

Word Breakdown

Root: צרות, צָרָה

Usage

Inflected Forms

tsores (alternative) tsoris (alternative) tsorris (alternative) tsouris (alternative) tszoris (alternative) tsures (alternative) tzuris (alternative)

Questions

How do you pronounce tsuris?: The recorded pronunciation is /tsʊɹɪs/.
What does tsuris mean?: Problems or troubles.
Where does tsuris come from?: It is traced to Yiddish.

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