Cerf

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Gender Masculine
Usage Medieval French, Medieval Jewish

Meaning & History

Means "stag (a large buck or male deer)" in French. Cerf sometimes appears in historical documents concerned with the Jews of Alsace and early modern France; it was a local translation of the Yiddish Hirsh, meaning "deer", the Hebrew equivalent of which is Zvi.
Added 7/17/2009 by Just Jonquil
Edited 7/19/2016 by SeaHorse15 and Frollein Gladys