يهود

Learned back-formation from يَهُودِيّ (yahūdiyy) as if this were relative adjective (nisba) composed of يَهُود (yahūd, “Jews”) +‎ ـِيّ (-iyy).

يَهُود • (yahūd) m pl or f (collective, singulative يَهُودِيّ m (yahūdiyy), paucal يَهُود (yahūd))

1. (collective) Jews
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 5:18:
     (translated by Pickthall)

     وَقَالَتِ ٱلْيَهُودُ وَٱلنَّصَارَىٰ نَحْنُ أَبْنَاءُ ٱللَّهِ وَأَحِبَّاؤُهُ ۚ قُلْ فَلِمَ يُعَذِّبُكُم بِذُنُوبِكُم ۖ بَلْ أَنتُم بَشَرٌ مِّمَّنْ خَلَقَ ۚ يَغْفِرُ لِمَن يَشَاءُ وَيُعَذِّبُ مَن يَشَاءُ ۚ وَلِلَّهِ مُلْكُ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا ۖ وَإِلَيْهِ ٱلْمَصِيرُ

     wa-qālati l-yahūdu wa-n-aṣārā naḥnu ʾabnāʾu llāhi wa-ʾaḥibbāʾuh[ū], qul fa-lima yuʿaḏḏibukum bi-ḏunūbikum, bal ʾantum bašarum-mimman ḵalaq[a], yaġfiru li-man yašāʾu wa-yuʿaḏḏibu man yašāʾ[u], wa-llāhi mulku s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi wa-mā baynahumā, wa-ʾilayhi l-maṣīr[u]

     The Jews and Christians say: We are sons of Allah and His loved ones. Say: Why then doth He chastise you for your sins? Nay, ye are but mortals of His creating. He forgiveth whom He will, and chastiseth whom He will. Allah's is the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, and unto Him is the journeying.

• يَهُودِيّ (yahūdiyy, “related to Jews; single Jew”)
• يَهُودِيَّة (yahūdiyya)

• → Afar: Yahúud

يَهُود • (yahūd) m pl

1. masculine plural of يَهُودِيّ (yahūdiyy)

يَهُودُ • (yahūdu) (form I)

1. third-person masculine singular non-past active indicative of هَادَ (hāda)

يَهُودَ • (yahūda) (form I)

1. third-person masculine singular non-past active subjunctive of هَادَ (hāda)

• Hopkins, Simon (1997) “On the Words for “Jew(s)” in Arabic”, in Uri Rubin, David J. Wasserstein, editors, Dhimmis and Others: Jews and Christians and the World of Classical Islam (Israel Oriental Studies; 17), Eisenbrauns, pages 11–27
• Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 293–294

From Arabic يَهُود (yahūd).

• IPA^(key): /ja.huːd/, [jaˈhuːd]

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يهود • (yahūd) pl

1. plural of يهودي (yahūdi, “Jew”)

يهود • (yahūd)

1. plural of يهودي (yahūdi, “Jewish”)