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Subject: Yiddish language
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: lifi-ga
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Posted: 07 Oct 2002 13:31 PDT
Expires: 06 Nov 2002 12:31 PST
Question ID: 73698
I am seeking the correct Yiddush word meaning "confuse".........
I believe it is " ibberbotel" or possibly "ubberbotel"
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Subject: Re: Yiddish language
Answered By: politicalguru-ga on 09 Oct 2002 05:52 PDT
Rated:4 out of 5 stars
 
Dear Lifi, 

Two online Yiddish dictionaries have several answers: 

According to the Koshernosh dictionary (that also enables you to hear
to words as pronounced):
Tsedreyt  = Confuzed, dizzy  
Farchadat = Confused,distracted, dysfunctional   
Farmisht  = Confused, dysfunctional   
Tsetumult = Confused, bewildered   
(Source: www.koshernosh.com/dictiona.htm). 

According to the Jewish Web Index's Yiddish dictionary: 

Confuse (Mixed Up)= Tsemishn [Tseh-Meesh-N] 
 
Confused          = Tsemisht [Tseh-Meesht]
 
Confused          = Tsetumlt [Tseh-Toom-Lt] 
 
Confusion         = Di Tsemishung [Dee Tseh-Mee-Shoong]
 
(Source: <http://jewishwebindex.com/yiddish_dictionary.htm>). 

Ariga.com also have a Yiddish dictionary, with the following
definitions:

Farblondzhet - Lost, bewildered, confused  

Far-tshadikt - Confused, bewildered, befuddled, as if by fumes, gas 

Kasheh - Groats, mush cereal, buckwheat, porridge; a mess, mix-up,
confusion

Tsemisht - Confused, befuddled, mixed-up 

Tsemishnich - Confusion 

Tumel - Confusion, noise, uproar 

(Source: Ariga.com <http://www.ariga.com/yiddish.htm>). 

And more from this rich language: 
"draikop - Scatterbrain; one who tends to confuse you; one who
connives
and twists the facts to serve his own purpose." (Source: Philip Sego,
"RHJ's Yiddish-Hebrew-English Glossary", Newsgroup soc.culture.jewish,
1999/05/13, <http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=926608241.502.66%40news.remarQ.com&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain>).


Further Sources: 
===============
Dictionary (Yiddish-English)
http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/dict.txt

Yiddish-Hebrew-English-German-Russian Picture Dictionary = 
http://ibiblio.org/yiddish/Vort/ 

Google Directory: http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Judaism/Yiddish/

HaGalil Online <http://www.hagalil.com/jidish/idx-jid.htm> (The online
newspaper of the Jews in Germany) - site is in German and Yiddish.

Beginners Yiddish Dictionary <http://www.sonic.net/~alm/> - takes
forever to download: it is recommended that you'll save the dictionary
and then read it.

Samuel Rosenbaum Yiddish Word Book for English-Speaking People by (Van
Nostrand:1978). <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0442270151/ltc-political/103-4174091-8036665>

Yiddish far Reizende
<http://www.travlang.com/languages/cgi-bin/langchoice.cgi?page=main&lang1=english&lang2=yiddish>.

Soc.culture.Jewish <http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=soc.culture.jewish>.

As well as those dictionaries, I consulted with a Yiddish speaker I
know. My search terms on Google were "Yiddish dictionary" and "yiddish
confuse".

I hope that answers your question. Please contact me for any
clarifications.

Request for Answer Clarification by lifi-ga on 09 Oct 2002 07:21 PDT
What is a reasonable spelling of "ibberbotel"......."ubberbotel"

Clarification of Answer by politicalguru-ga on 09 Oct 2002 12:18 PDT
Dear Lifi,  
 
It crossed my mind that this could be "uber/iber" and "butel" (=. And
guess what? :-)

According to Ariga.com: 
Aiver butel - Absent minded; mixed up  
(Source: http://www.ariga.com/yiddish.htm)
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