Etymology

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Today it means: A wealthy landowner who controls a shtetl. Full definition →

Yiddish פּריץ ← Hebrew פׇּרִיץ
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  1. Hebrew · derived fromפׇּרִיץ“bandit”
  2. Yiddish · borrowed fromפּריץ“landowner”
  3. English todayporitz

Borrowed from Yiddish פּריץ (porets, “landowner”), from Hebrew פׇּרִיץ (pārīṣ, “bandit”). Compare Polish puryc.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.