Etymology

mazaldik

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Today it means: lucky, fortunate Full definition →

Yiddish מזלדיק ← Hebrew מַזָּל
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The story

  1. Hebrew · derived fromמַזָּל“constellation, luck, fortune”
  2. Yiddish · borrowed fromמזלדיק“lucky”
  3. English todaymazaldik

Borrowed from Yiddish מזלדיק (mazldik, “lucky”), from Hebrew מַזָּל (“constellation, luck, fortune”). Compare English mazel tov.

Words from the same roots

Hebrewמַזָּל all →

mazel tovshemozzle

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.