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דיסקזשאָקיי

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Yiddish

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Etymology

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דיסק (disk) +‎ זשאָקיי (zhokey), calque of English disc jockey. Compare Russian диск-жоке́й (disk-žokéj), Ukrainian диск-жоке́й (dysk-žokéj).

Noun

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דיסקזשאָקיי • (diskzhokey) m, plural דיסקזשאָקייען (diskzhokeyen)

  1. disc jockey, DJ

References

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  • Schaechter-Viswanath, Gitl, Glasser, Paul (2016) “disc jockey”, in Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, →ISBN
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