mass noun
- a language used by Jews in central and eastern Europe before the Holocaust. It was originally a German dialect with words from Hebrew and several modern languages, and still has some 200,000 speakers, mainly in the US, Israel, and Russia.意第绪语, 依地语（纳粹德国对犹太人进行大屠杀前居住在中欧和东欧的犹太人使用的语言, 原为一种融入了希伯来语和数种现代语词汇的德国方言, 现仍拥有约20万使用者, 主要分布在美国、以色列和俄罗斯）。
- of or relating to this language意第绪语的, 依地语的。
词源
late 19th cent.: from Yiddish yidish （daytsh） 'Jewish German'.