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amother
Vermilion
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 Tue, Jan 16 2018, 4:45 pm
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The meaning of the Yiddish name Yenta is : Gentle or noblewoman. What would be the equivalent in a Hebrew girls name?
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amother
Burlywood
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Tue, Jan 16 2018, 4:57 pm
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We had this question for DD. Some noble names are Atara, Malka, and Sarah.
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amother
Honeydew
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Tue, Jan 16 2018, 4:58 pm
| amother wrote: | | The meaning of the Yiddish name Yenta is : Gentle or noblewoman. What would be the equivalent in a Hebrew girls name? |
Adina
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shanabanana
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Tue, Jan 16 2018, 4:59 pm
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As far as I know there is no hebrew version, I think Adina is as close to it that you'll find
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amother
Yellow
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Tue, Jan 16 2018, 5:15 pm
Glad to hear Yenta means gentle and noble. I have a sil Yenta who is just like that. I thought yenta means a nosy busybody 
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imasoftov
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Tue, Jan 16 2018, 7:01 pm
| amother wrote: | | Glad to hear Yenta means gentle and noble. I have a sil Yenta who is just like that. I thought yenta means a nosy busybody |
In the 1920s and ‘30s, B. Kovner (whose real name was Jacob Adler) wrote a series of comic sketches about a henpecking wife named “Yente Telebende.” (You can read an example of Kovner’s column here.) The sketches were so popular that the name simply took on the colloquial meaning of a gossip, which it retains to this day.
from https://forward.com/sisterhood.....tory/
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amother
Crimson
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Thu, Jan 18 2018, 4:13 pm
Names I've heard for similar meanings are Hadar or Aderet or Ateret.
Where did you see that Yenta has this meaning? We have a relative Yenta that we want to name after, but haven't been able to find definitively what the meaning is.
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amother
Vermilion
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Thu, Jan 18 2018, 4:20 pm
| amother wrote: | Names I've heard for similar meanings are Hadar or Aderet or Ateret.
Where did you see that Yenta has this meaning? We have a relative Yenta that we want to name after, but haven't been able to find definitively what the meaning is. | "I Googled it" it was one of my grandmothers names .
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amother
Chartreuse
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Thu, Jan 18 2018, 5:39 pm
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We were told to use Yocheved.
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amother
Vermilion
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Thu, Jan 18 2018, 5:57 pm
| amother wrote: | | We were told to use Yocheved. | what is the definition of Yocheved?
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amother
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Thu, Jan 18 2018, 8:30 pm
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amother
Cerise
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Thu, Jan 18 2018, 9:55 pm
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Adina because Yenta means gentle
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Ruchel
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Fri, Jan 19 2018, 7:58 am
| amother wrote: | | Glad to hear Yenta means gentle and noble. I have a sil Yenta who is just like that. I thought yenta means a nosy busybody |
Why would anyone name a child so? I have no idea why Americans seem to think so.
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