anti-Semite

See also: antisemite and antisémite

English

Etymology

1881, from German Antisemit (coined by Wilhelm Marr in 1879 as a scientific-sounding self-identification), from German antisemitisch (coined by Moritz Steinschneider in 1860), from anti- semitisch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌæntiˈsɛmaɪt/, (also) /ˌæntaɪ-/, (UK) /ˌæntiˈsiːmaɪt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

anti-Semite (plural anti-Semites)

1. Someone with anti-Semitic views.

   Antonym: philo-Semite

   Coordinate term: Islamophobe

   • 2014, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Scottish Independence”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 17, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:

     Aw yes, nothing screams Scottish freedom quite like a millionaire Australian anti-Semite on horseback.

Related terms

• anti-Semitic
• anti-Semitism

Translations

anti-Semite

• Albanian: antisemit m
• Arabic: مُعَادٍ لِلسَّامِيَّةِ m (muʕādin li-s-sāmiyyati)
• Armenian: հակասեմական (hy) (hakasemakan)
• Belarusian: антысемі́т m (antysjemít), антысемі́тка f (antysjemítka)
• Bulgarian: антисеми́т m (antisemít), антисеми́тка f (antisemítka)
• Catalan: antisemita m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反猶太／反犹太 (fǎn-Yóutài) (specifically anti-Jewish), 反猶份子／反犹份子 (fǎn-Yóu-fènzǐ) (specifically anti-Jewish)

• Czech: antisemita (cs) m
• Danish: antisemit c
• Dutch: antisemiet (nl) m
• Esperanto: antisemito
• Estonian: antisemiit
• Finnish: antisemitisti
• French: antisémite (fr) m or f
• Galician: antisemita m or f
• Georgian: ანტისემიტი (anṭisemiṭi)
• German: Antisemit (de) m, Antisemitin (de) f, Judenfeind m (specifically anti-Jewish), Judenfeindin f (specifically anti-Jewish) , Judenhasser m, Judenhasserin f
• Greek: αντισημίτης (el) m (antisimítis), αντισημίτρια (el) f (antisimítria)
• Hebrew: אנטישמי (he) m (antishémi), אנטישמית f (antishémit)
• Hungarian: antiszemita (hu)
• Italian: antisemita (it) m or f
• Japanese: 反ユダヤ主義者 (han-Yudaya-shugisha) (specifically anti-Jewish)
• Korean: 반유대주의자 (banyudaejuuija)
• Latvian: antisemīts m, antisemīte f
• Lithuanian: antisemitas m, antisemitė f
• Macedonian: антисеми́т m (antisemít), антисеми́тка f (antisemítka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: antisemitt m, jødehater (no) m

  Nynorsk: antisemitt m, jødehatar m

• Polish: antysemita (pl) m, antysemitka (pl) f
• Portuguese: antissemita (pt) m or f
• Romanian: antisemit (ro) m, antisemită (ro) f
• Russian: антисеми́т (ru) m (antisemít), антисеми́тка (ru) f (antisemítka), юдофо́б (ru) m (judofób) (obsolete, specifically anti-Jewish)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: антисѐмӣт m

  Roman: antisèmīt (sh) m

• Slovak: antisemita (sk) m, antisemitka f
• Slovene: antisemit m, antisemitka f
• Spanish: antisemita m or f
• Swedish: antisemit (sv) c
• Ukrainian: антисемі́т (uk) m (antysemít), антисемі́тка f (antysemítka)
• Yiddish: אַנטיסעמיט m (antisemit), שׂונא־ישׂראל m (soyne-yisroel)

Further reading

• antisemitism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia