different between maddish vs kaddish

English

Etymology

mad +? -ish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æd??

Adjective

maddish

1. Somewhat mad.
   • 1642, Thomas Morton, The Presentment of a Schismaticke, London: R. Whitaker & S. Brown, p. 6,^[1]

     I have reserved for the last place a Character which maketh his case most desperate, called by Auusten maddish obstinacy […]

   • 1815, Charles Lamb, letter to William Wordsworth dated 28 April, 1815, in The Letters of Charles Lamb, Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1905, Volume 4, p. 39,^[2]

     Excuse this maddish letter: I am too tired to write in forma.

   • 1964, Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man, London: Vintage, 2010,

     He is small and thin, and has glasses and large teeth and the maddish smile of genuine intellectual passion.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew ????????? (kadish, “kaddish”), from Aramaic ????????? (qadd?š, “holy; holy person”).

The plural form kaddishim is borrowed from Hebrew ??????????? (kadishim).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæd??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?d??/
• Rhymes: -æd??
• Hyphenation: kad?dish

Noun

kaddish (plural kaddishes or kaddishim)

1. (Judaism) A Jewish prayer of praise to God recited during services, and specifically when mourning the death of a close relative.

Alternative forms

• Kaddish
• qaddish

Translations

Further reading

Further reading

• kaddish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia