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Gender Masculine
Usage Yiddish
Scripts הירש(Yiddish) הירשׁ(Hebrew)

Meaning & History

Means "deer" in Yiddish, from Old High German hiruz. This was a vernacular form of the Hebrew name Tzvi. The deer is particularly associated with the tribe of Naphtali (see Genesis 49:21).