different between pareve vs parev

English

Alternative forms

• parev, parve

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish ????????, ?????????? (parev, pareve), of uncertain origin. Suggestions include:

• Perhaps from Middle High German bar (“bare, naked”), from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (“bare, naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?osós, from *b?os- (“bare, barefoot”), and thus cognate with English bare.
• Perhaps from a West Slavic source such as Czech párový (“occurring in pairs”), because according to Jewish dietary laws, meat and milk cannot be combined, but as pareve food contains neither, it can be paired with either meat dishes or milk dishes.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??.??.v?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?.??.v?/, IPA^(key): /?p?.??v/
• Hyphenation: pa?re?ve

Adjective

pareve (not comparable)

1. (Jewish law) Of food: that has no meat or milk in any form as an ingredient.
2. (figuratively, by extension) Neutral, bland, inoffensive.

Usage notes

• In Yiddish, ????????? (parev) is the predicative form and ?????????? (pareve) the attributive form of the adjective. Some speakers familiar with Yiddish use this distribution in English as well, e.g., My mom made a pareve casserole but This casserole is parev.

References

Further reading

• pareve on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• repave

English

Adjective

parev (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of pareve

Usage notes

In Yiddish, ????????? (parev) is the predicative form and ?????????? (pareve) the attributive form of the adjective. Some speakers familiar with Yiddish use this distribution in English as well, e.g. My mom made a pareve casserole but This casserole is parev.

Anagrams

• parve, paver, vaper