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- Hebrew · borrowed fromמַמְזֵר“a bastard”
- English todaymamzer
Borrowed from Hebrew מַמְזֵר (mamzér, “a bastard”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
mamzer
Today it means: A child born to Jewish parents whose relationship is incestuous or otherwise forbidden by Jewish law (e.g. an unmarried man and a married woman), or the descendant of such a person. Full definition →
Hebrew מַמְזֵר