transcription, транскрипция: [ sə-ˈfär-dē ]
noun
( plural Se·phar·dim -ˈfär-dəm)
Etymology: Late Hebrew sĕphāradhī, from sĕphāradh Spain, from Hebrew, region where Jews were once exiled (Obadiah 1:20)
Date: 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 -ˈfär-dik adjective