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AlwaysGrateful

Thu, Sep 15 2022, 2:59 pm

I remember learning about certain words that don't exist in loshon hakodesh, since they don't really have a source in hashkafa...but I can't find a list online.

The only one I can remember is "fun" (since "kef" is really an Arabic word).

Just for fun, anyone know any others?

Happydance

Thu, Sep 15 2022, 3:07 pm

Fair

BH Yom Yom

Thu, Sep 15 2022, 3:09 pm

Romance

Chickpea

Thu, Sep 15 2022, 3:09 pm

Coincidence

Java

Thu, Sep 15 2022, 3:17 pm

Chickpea wrote:

Coincidence

מקרה

zaq

Thu, Sep 15 2022, 3:40 pm

Java wrote:

מקרה

That mean "happenstance" not "coincidence." Similar but not identical meaning.

DrMom

Thu, Sep 15 2022, 3:42 pm

Nuclear reactor? What

preciousmommy

Thu, Sep 15 2022, 3:57 pm

Banana

BrisketBoss

Thu, Sep 15 2022, 4:07 pm

Believe it or not: perfect

This was a concept we learned from the Greeks. Shalem, and I think there's another word that's brought too, aren't really the same.

GLUE

Thu, Sep 15 2022, 5:03 pm

This is not loshon hakodesh but it sums up Jews

There is a word(forgot what it is)in Yiddish that you can't find in any other language it means to be happy that someone else got something good.

Java

Thu, Sep 15 2022, 5:06 pm

GLUE wrote:

This is not loshon hakodesh but it sums up Jews

There is a word(forgot what it is)in Yiddish that you can't find in any other language it means to be happy that someone else got something good.

Fargin?

zaq

Thu, Sep 15 2022, 7:13 pm

Schadenfreude. The concept exists in Mishlei: בִּנְפֹ֣ל (אויביך) [א֭וֹיִבְךָ] אַל־תִּשְׂמָ֑ח וּ֝בִכָּשְׁל֗וֹ אַל־יָגֵ֥ל לִבֶּֽךָ׃, but trust the Germans to come up with a word for it.

Farginen doesn't mean rejoicing over someone else's good fortune; it means wishing them well and not begrudging them their good fortune. Closely related emotions, perhaps, but nevertheless different.

relaxation

Thu, Sep 15 2022, 7:17 pm

this might get controversal but I heard the g-y is something that the torah only mentions in a roundabout way and not as an identity. I am not here to defend it or go against it ... just saying I heard this once before..

Java

Thu, Sep 15 2022, 7:21 pm

zaq wrote:

Schadenfreude I think is the opposite? Rejoicing when your enemy gets what's coming?

PinkFridge

Thu, Sep 15 2022, 7:32 pm

zaq wrote:

Beat me to schadenfreude.

PinkFridge

Thu, Sep 15 2022, 7:32 pm

Happydance wrote:

Fair

What's yashar?

Malkqueen

Thu, Sep 15 2022, 7:38 pm

Compersion is a little-known English word that means fargin.

Schadenfreude is the opposite; Yiddish speakers may recognize the root words of שאדן (damage, loosely) and פרייד (joy) = joy in someone's downfall.

One word I have not found in Lashon Koshesh is like. There is אהבה, which is love, but I do not know of any word for like.

Last edited by Malkqueen on Thu, Sep 15 2022, 8:07 pm; edited 1 time in total

Java

Thu, Sep 15 2022, 7:38 pm

PinkFridge wrote:

What's yashar?

Yashrus I think is more closely defined as integrity

PinkFridge

Thu, Sep 15 2022, 8:04 pm

Java wrote:

Yashrus I think is more closely defined as integrity

So close.

PinkFridge

Thu, Sep 15 2022, 8:06 pm

Malkqueen wrote:

Compersion is a little-known English word that means fargin.

Schadenfreude is the opposite; Yiddish speakers may recognize the root words of שאדן (damage, loosely) and פרייד (joy) = joy is someone's downfall.

One word I have not found in Lashon Koshesh is like. There is אהבה, which is love, but I do not know of any word for like.

I'm googling. There's a link to Buddhism; there was an NPR On Point on the subject and I listened and thought, they're missing fargin.
Can it be used as a verb in some form?

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