Etymology

Helfand

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Today it means: A surname from Yiddish. Full definition →

Yiddish העלפֿאַנד
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The story

  1. Yiddish · borrowed fromהעלפֿאַנד“elephant”
  2. English todayHelfand

Borrowed from Yiddish העלפֿאַנד (helfand, “elephant”), a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.