Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

landsmanshaft

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lands-man-shaft
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A mutual aid society or benefit society of Jewish immigrants from the same European town or region.

Etymology

From Yiddish [Term?]; compare German Landsmannschaft.

Origin

Source language: Yiddish

Inflected Forms

landsmanshafts (plural) landsmanshaftn (plural) landsmanschaft (alternative)

Questions

What does landsmanshaft mean?: A mutual aid society or benefit society of Jewish immigrants from the same European town or region.
Where does landsmanshaft come from?: It is traced to Yiddish.

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