SEPHARDI

[Se.phar.di] n, pl Se.phar.dim [LHeb sepharadhi, fr. sepharadh Spain, fr. Heb, region where Jews were once exiled (Obad 1:20)] (1851): a member of the occidental branch of European Jews settling in Spain and Portugal and later in the Balkans, the Levant, England, the Netherlands, and the Americas; also: one of their descendants--compare ashkenazi -- Se.phar.dic adj