From Jew + -ish.

• enPR: jo͞oʹ-ĭsh, IPA: /ˈd͡ʒuː.ɪʃ/

Jewish

1. Following the religion of Judaism.

   There are many Jewish people in France.

2. Of or relating to Jews, their ethnicity, religion or culture.

   I tried some traditional Jewish food yesterday.

3. (derogatory, offensive, dated) Greedy, miserly.
   • 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. […] , volume III, London: […] Smith, Elder, & Company, […], →OCLC ↗, page 155 ↗:

     "Vanity!" ſays ſhe, haughtily, "What is vanity in you, ſir, is propriety in me. You aſk a Jewiſh price for it, Mr. Graves; but have it I will, if only to ſpite Mr. Eſmond."

4. Yiddish.

• Israelite

• Gentile

• French: juif
• German: jüdisch
• Italian: ebreo
• Portuguese: judaico, judeu
• Russian: евре́йский
• Spanish: judío

Jewish (plural Jewishes)

1. (NNSE, proscribed) A Jew.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Jewish.

1. (informal, proscribed) The Yiddish or Hebrew language.
   • quoted in 1947, William Lloyd Warner, Leo Srole, The Social Systems of American Ethnic Groups (page 232)

     I can't speak Jewish; I can't even understand it.

• French: juif
• German: Jüdisch (obsolete), Idisch (obsolete)