Word Origin Summary

is attested in Hebrew. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• אַ חוץ פֿון

  YID · borrowed from

• ball-buster

  English · derived from

• schlemiel

  Dutch · derived from

• יישר כּוח

  YID · derived from

• אליהו הנבֿיא

  YID · borrowed from

• balebos

  English · borrowed from

• בעל־הבית

  YID · borrowed from

• balabustă

  Romanian · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root