היפּש

Yiddish

Etymology

Cognate to German hübsch (“pretty, handsome”), from Middle High German hübesch (“courtly”), thus a doublet of הויף‎ (hoyf). For the semantic development, compare English pretty, German schön (especially ganz schön).

Adjective

היפּש • (hipsh)

  1. considerable, sizeable
    • 2020 April 24, Mikhail Krutikov, “װי פּאָליטיש זײַנען ייִדישע לימודים?‎”, in Forverts:
      ‏װײַס האָט געהאַט א היפּשע השפּעה אױף דער אױפֿנאַמע פֿון ייִדיש אין אַמעריקע.‎‎
      vays hot gehat a hipshe hashpoe oyf der oyfname fun yidish in amerike.
      Weiss had a considerable influence on the reception of Yiddish in America.

Declension
Declension of היפּש
predicative היפּש‎
hipsh
case masculine neuter feminine plural
indefinite definite post./nom.
nominative היפּשער‎
hipsher		 היפּש‎
hipsh		 היפּשע‎
hipshe		 היפּשס‎
hipshs		 היפּשע‎
hipshe		 היפּשע‎
hipshe
accusative היפּשן‎
hipshn
dative היפּשן‎
hipshn		 היפּשער‎
hipsher

Derived terms
  • אַ היפּש ביסל‎ (a hipsh bisl, “quite a bit”)
  • אַ היפּש שטיקל‎ (a hipsh shtikl)
  • היפּש עטלעכע‎ (hipsh etlekhe, “quite a few”)
  • היפּשלעך‎ (hipshlekh)
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