different between elderly vs bubbe

English

Etymology

elder +? -ly

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??ld?li/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??ld?li/
• Hyphenation: eld?er?ly

Adjective

elderly

1. old; having lived for relatively many years.

   Synonyms: elder, old; see also Thesaurus:elderly

2. Of an object, being old-fashioned or frail due to aging.

   Synonyms: dated, outworn, decrepit, timeworn; see also Thesaurus:obsolete, Thesaurus:deteriorated

Translations

Noun

elderly (plural elderlies)

1. An elderly person.
2. (with article, collective) Older people as a whole.

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• bubbie
• bobbe
• bobeh
• bubby
• bube

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish ?????? (bobe).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?b?/, /?b?b?/, /?b?bi/, /?b?bi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?b?/, /?b?b?/, /?b?bi/, /?b?bi/
• Rhymes: -?bi, -?b?, -?bi, -?b?, -?bi

Noun

bubbe (plural bubbes)

1. A grandmother.
   • 1996: Joan C. Hawxhurst, Bubbe & Gram: My Two Grandmothers, blurb

     A little girl describes the various things she does with her Jewish grandmother, Bubbe, and her Christian grandmother, Gram, and what she has learned about both.

   • 2001: Elizabeth Sussman Nassau, Raisins and Almonds, in Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul (Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Dov Peretz Elkins, eds.), p238

     When I showed my bubbe, she said I had found a memory of the snake, and that memories were precious.

2. Any elderly woman.
   • 1979 Stephen Longstreet, The Dream Seekers, ?ISBN, page 174:

     "You heard the bubbe," said Josie. "There isn't any. You act up and cry and I'll give you the back of my hand."

Related terms

• bubbe-meise

See also

• zayde

References

• OED 2006

Sidamo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bub?e/

Noun

bubbe f

1. wind

References

• Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 81