Talmud

See also: talmud

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew תַּלְמוּד (talmúd, “instruction, learning”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, Canada, US) IPA^(key): /ˈtælmʊd/
• (UK, Canada, US) IPA^(key): /ˈtælməd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑlmʊd/

Proper noun

Talmud (plural Talmuds)

2. (Judaism) A collection of Jewish writings related to the practical application of Judaic law and tradition (may refer to either the Babylonian Talmud or the shorter Jerusalem Talmud).
   • 2019 July 3, Jess Schwalb, “Red Line Rebellion”, in Jewish Currents‎^[1]:

     On any given Friday night at the Claremont Colleges, between 15 and 20 Jewish students gather to sing wordless melodies, dive into textual study of Talmud or James Baldwin, or hold workshops on antisemitism.

Derived terms

• Talmudic
• Talmudical
• Talmudist
• Talmudvision

Translations

collection of Jewish writings

• Arabic: تَلْمُود m (talmūd)
• Armenian: թալմուդ (hy) (tʻalmud)
• Basque: Talmud
• Belarusian: Талмуд m (Talmud)
• Bengali: তলমূদ (tôlmūd)
• Bulgarian: Талмуд m (Talmud)
• Catalan: Talmud m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塔木德 (zh) (tǎmùdé)

• Czech: Talmud m
• Danish: Talmud c
• Dutch: Talmoed (nl) m
• Esperanto: Talmudo
• Estonian: Talmud (et)
• Finnish: Talmud
• French: Talmud (fr) m, talmud (fr) m
• Georgian: თალმუდი (talmudi)
• German: Talmud (de) m
• Greek: Ταλμούδ (el) (Talmoúd)
• Hebrew: תַּלְמוּד (he) m (talmud)
• Hungarian: Talmud (hu)
• Italian: Talmud (it) m
• Japanese: タルムード (tarumūdo)
• Korean: 탈무드 (talmudeu)
• Ladino: תלמוד (talmud)
• Latin: Talmūd
• Latvian: Talmūds m
• Lithuanian: Talmudas m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Talmud m

  Nynorsk: Talmúd m

• Persian: تلمود (fa) (talmud)
• Polish: Talmud (pl) m
• Portuguese: Talmude (pt) m
• Romanian: Talmud m
• Russian: талму́д (ru) m (talmúd), Талму́д (ru) m (Talmúd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Талмуд m

  Roman: Talmud (sh) m

• Slovak: Talmud m
• Slovene: Talmud (sl) m
• Spanish: Talmud (es) m
• Swedish: Talmud (sv) c
• Tagalog: Talmud
• Turkish: Talmud (tr)
• Ukrainian: Талмуд m (Talmud)
• Yiddish: תּלמוד m (talmud)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew תַּלְמוּד (talmúd, “instruction, learning”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tal.myd/

Noun

Talmud m (plural Talmuds)

1. Talmud

Derived terms

• Talmud de Babylone
• Talmud de Jérusalem
• talmudique
• talmudiste

Further reading

• “Talmud”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Polish

Talmud

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew תַּלְמוּד (talmúd).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtal.mut/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -almut
• Syllabification: Tal‧mud

Proper noun

Talmud m inan (related adjective talmudowy or talmudyczny)

1. (Judaism) Talmud (collection of Jewish writings)

Declension

Declension of Talmud

	singular	plural
nominative	Talmud	Talmudy
genitive	Talmudu	Talmudów
dative	Talmudowi	Talmudom
accusative	Talmud	Talmudy
instrumental	Talmudem	Talmudami
locative	Talmudzie	Talmudach
vocative	Talmudzie	Talmudy

Derived terms

nouns

• talmudysta
• talmudyzm
• talmudzista

Further reading

• Talmud in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Talmud in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Proper noun

Talmud m

1. Alternative form of Talmude

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Hebrew תלמוד (talmud, “instruction, learning”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tǎlmud/
• Hyphenation: Tal‧mud

Proper noun

Tàlmud m (Cyrillic spelling Та̀лмуд)

1. Talmud

Declension

Declension of Talmud

	singular
nominative	Talmud
genitive	Talmuda
dative	Talmudu
accusative	Talmud
vocative	Talmude
locative	Talmudu
instrumental	Talmudom

References

• “Talmud”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew תלמוד (talmud, “instruction, learning”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /talˈmud/ [t̪alˈmuð̞]
• Rhymes: -ud
• Syllabification: Tal‧mud

Proper noun

el Talmud m

1. the Talmud (collection of Jewish writings)

Derived terms

• talmúdico
• talmudista

Further reading

• “Talmud”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10