Ashkenazi meaning

Definition of Ashkenazi

1. a Jew of eastern European or German descent

   Type of: Jew

Ashkenazi in a sentence

• People with the last name Ashkenazi are usually Sephardi.
• Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews are closely related.
• Ashkenazi Jews are traditionally not named after living relatives.
• Neurosis is a trait often stereotypically assigned to Ashkenazi Jews.
• In Tiberian, Yemenite, and Ashkenazi Hebrew, long a merged with short o.

How to pronounce Ashkenazi

Ashkenazi is pronounced /ˌæʃkəˈnɑzi/ in American English. It has 4 syllables, with the stress on the third syllable.