different between tzaddik vs tsade

English

Alternative forms

• zaddik
• tsadik
• tsadiq
• tsaddik
• tzadik

Etymology

From Hebrew ???????? (tsadík, “righteous person”). Many pronunciations have come under the influence of Yiddish ????? (tsadek).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ts??.di?k/, /?ts??.d?k/, /?s??.d?k/

Noun

tzaddik (plural tzaddiks or tzaddikim)

1. (Judaism) A very righteous person, especially a Hassidic spiritual leader.
   • 1988, Christina Pribi?evi?-Zori?, translating Milorad Pavi?, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage 1989, p. 226:

     For in dreams one thinks with the eyes and the ears; speech has no nouns, just verbs; only in dreams is every person a zaddik, never a murderer….

Translations

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ts??di/, /?ts??de?/

Noun

tsade (plural tsades)

1. The eighteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Translations

Further reading

• tsade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• AEDST, Deats, Stade, Stead, TASed, asdet, dates, desat, sadet, sated, stade, stead, tased

Finnish

Noun

tsade

1. tsade (eighteenth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)

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