Pronunciations
| kashe | (KAH-shuh) | listen |
Definitions
n. A tough question; a difficulty.
Example Sentences
"What kind of kashe is that?" (Steinmetz)
"We have a quite a kashya here."
"It's no kashe how the Rosh Yeshiva's nephew got accepted to the yeshiva despite his shvache learning" (Weiser).
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Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
- Aramaic
- Yiddish
Etymology
A קשיא kashya > TH קשה kashe > Y קשה, lit. 'difficult, hard'
- Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)
- Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
- Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage
- North America
- Great Britain
- The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
- Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
- Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim Weiser (Northvale, 1995).
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Alternative Spellings
kashyeh, kashye, kasheh, kashya, kashah, kashoh, kasho, kasha, kashyah, kashyoh, kashyo
Notes
Not to be confused with kasha קאַשע buckwheat groats, which is often pronounced the same way.
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