different between zayde vs bubbe

English

Alternative forms

• zeidy, zaydeh, zeidi

Etymology

From Yiddish ?????? (zeyde, “grandfather”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?di, -e?d?

Noun

zayde (plural zaydes)

1. (Jewish) grandfather
   • 1974, Fran Ross, Oreo ?ISBN page 207:

     Perhaps, in these circumstances, he would greet his granddaughter as a zayde should, with love and affection.

2. (Jewish) elderly man (as a term of respect)
   • 3 November 1975, John Simon, review of Lies My Father Told Me, New York Magazine page 74:

     The zayde is, as the hoary formula demands, gruff on the outside but wonderful to his horse and David...

   • 1997, Susan Berrin, A Heart of Wisdom ?ISBN page 200:

     To many people, the phrase "Jewish elderly" still conjures up images of bearded zaydes with yarmulkes...

References

• OED 2006

Anagrams

• Zayed

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