[ sɪ'fα:di ]
■ noun ( plural ~m -dɪm ) a Jew of Spanish or Portuguese descent. Compare with Ashkenazi .
↘any Jew of the Middle East or North Africa.
Derivatives
~c adjective
Origin
mod. Heb., from sĕp̄āraḏ , a country mentioned in Obad. 20 and taken to be Spain.