djoven

Ladino

Alternative forms

• djoveno, joven, joveno

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish iouen, from Latin iuvenis.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

djoven (Hebrew spelling ג׳וב׳ין, plural djovenes)

1. young

   Antonym: viejo

   • 2005, Aki Yerushalayim‎^[1], volumes 26–28, page 7:

     Ainda en una muy djoven edad el se gano la fama de ser un djenio ekstraordinario.

     Yet at a very young age he became famous as an extraordinary genius.

Noun

djoven m (Hebrew spelling ג׳וב׳ין, plural djovenes)

1. boy; lad; young man

   Synonyms: chiko, djoveniko, ijiko, mansevo

   Coordinate terms: chika, djovena, djovenika, ijika, manseva

   • 1999 May 15, Isaac Jack Lévy, transl., And the World Stood Silent: Sephardic Poetry of the Holocaust, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 50:

     Un djoven, kansado de las muchas orores ke el i su puevlo yevavan de dia en dia a las manos de las bestias umanas, demando kual era la parte ke el Dio tenia en los krimenes i su mankansa de traer djustisia a los kampos i de azer sus deveres para su puevlo: “Tio,” dizia, “porke todas estas orasiones? Porke meldar el kadish para los muertos, el Dio los protejara mas en el paradizo de lo ke izo en la tyerra?”

     A young man, tired of the endless horrors that he and his people endured day in and day out at the hands of human beasts, questioned God’s part in the crimes and His failing to bring justice to the camps and carry out His duties to His people: ‘Uncle,’ he would say. ‘Why all the prayers? Why recite the Kaddish for the dead. Will God protect them more in heaven than He does on earth?’