Meaning

3 senses
  1. (Judaism)A child born to Jewish parents whose relationship is incestuous or otherwise forbidden by Jewish law (e.g. an unmarried man and a married woman), or the descendant of such a person.

  2. (derogatory)A child who is born from an incestuous or adulterous relationship; a bastard.

  3. (derogatory, slang)A contemptible person; a jerk.

    Mamser, Mamzer

    мамзерmamzer

Translations

5 languages
Русский
a person of illegitimate birth:
Deutsch
a person of illegitimate birth:

Origin

Borrowed from Hebrew מַמְזֵר (mamzér, “a bastard”).

Borrowed from Hebrew מַמְזֵר (mamzér, “a bastard”).

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Forms

plural: mamzers / mamzerim

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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