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An ethnonym is the name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms (where the name of the ethnic group has...

The ethnonym Afghan (Dari Persian/Pashto: افغان) has been used historically to refer to the Pashtuns. Since the second half of the twentieth century, the...

also known as the Y-word, is a Jewish ethnonym of Yiddish origin. It is used as an autonym within the Ashkenazi Jewish community, and also used as slang...

the word “Jew.” History of the Jews in the Soviet Union List of Jewish ethnonyms Zhyd Antisemitic trope «Лицо национальности». Неполиткорректность в русском...

عبری/عبرانی) in Persian and Еврей Yevrey in Russian. (See List of Jewish ethnonyms for a full overview.) The German word Jude ([ˈjuːdə]) is cognate with...

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Jøden may refer to: Jøden, a Jewish ethnonym in Danish language Jøden (rapper) (born 1974), a Danish rapper This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

within 32 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Some scholars regard "Hebrews" as an ethnonym, while others do not, and others still hold that the multiple modern connotations...

dai signifies "people", hence the suspicion by Yin Gang that this is an ethnonym marker for Jews (Judah). Unfortunately there is no evidence that might...

יהדות קראית, romanized: Yahadut Qara'it) or Karaism is a non-Rabbinical Jewish sect and a separate Judaic ethno-religion (in Eastern Europe) characterized...

The Second Temple period or post-exilic period in Jewish history denotes the approximately 600 years (516 BCE – 70 CE) during which the Second Temple stood...

Israelites. Many scholars regard this connection to be plausible since the two ethnonyms have similar etymologies, although others argue that Habiru refers to...

assume its national value in late Jewish tradition from its earlier symbolic use by Menachem. The word Khazar, as an ethnonym, was last used in the 13th century...

Albanians is still a matter of academic debate. The first mention of the ethnonym Albanoi occurred in the 2nd century AD by Ptolemy describing an Illyrian...

differences, and self-designation. Like the Roma in general, many different ethnonyms are given to subgroups of Roma. Sometimes a subgroup uses more than one...

land from Phoenicia down to Egypt. Herodotus also employs the term as an ethnonym, as when he speaks of the "Syrians of Palestine" or "Palestinian-Syrians"...

aliens) who assimilated in the Israelite community. Hebrew is a similar ethnonym but it is usually applied whenever Israelites are economically disadvantaged...

Instead, they avoided the toponym altogether, turning it into an ethnonym. As for the ethnonym, they chose sometimes to transliterate it (incorrectly aspirating...

Book of Esther as a description of Haman. The term is understood to be an ethnonym although nothing is known with certainty about the people designated by...

true ethnic group or a possibly multiethnic political entity. Even then, ethnonyms were sometimes assigned by geographic location or surrounding features...