Sephardi


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Sephardi /sɪˈfɑːdi/
noun (pl. Sephardim /-dɪm/) a Jew of Spanish or Portuguese descent. Compare with Ashkenazi.

■ any Jew of the Middle East or North Africa.

– derivatives
Sephardic adjective.
– origin mod. Heb., from sĕp̄āraḏ, a country mentioned in Obad. 20 and taken to be Spain.
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