Etymology

Kushner

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

Yiddish קושנער ← Ukrainian кушнір
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The story

  1. Ukrainian · derived fromкушнір
  2. Yiddish · borrowed fromקושנער
  3. English todayKushner

Borrowed from Yiddish קושנער (Kushner), from קושניר (kushnir), from Ukrainian кушнір (kušnir, literally “furrier”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.