Judas

See also: judas, Júdás, Jūdas, and judąs

English

Alternative forms

• Iudas (archaic)
• (common noun): judas

Etymology

From Middle English Iudas, from Latin Iudas, from Ancient Greek Ἰούδας (Ioúdas), from Hebrew יְהוּדָה (y'hudá). Doublet of Judah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒuːdəs/
• Rhymes: -uːdəs

Proper noun

Judas

1. (biblical) One of the twelve original Apostles of Jesus, known for his role in Jesus' betrayal into the hands of Roman authorities.

   Synonym: Judas Iscariot

2. A male given name from Hebrew.
3. (biblical, archaic) Alternative form of Jude, the penultimate book of the Bible and its ascribed author, Jude the Apostle.
   • 1615, John Ainsworth, The Trying Out of the Truth […] , page 122:

     […] you should as well reject those Deuterocanonici of the new testament as the epistle to the Hebrewes, Judas epistle and the Apocalyps […]

   • 1675, Francis Roberts, Clavis Bibliorum: The Key of the Bible […] , page 573:

     The Catholique (or General) Epistle of the Apostle JUDAS

   • 1778, John James Bachmair, The Revelation of St. John Historically Explained […] , page 11:

     St. Peter writes against those that had the doctrine of Balaam, 2 Pet. ii. 15, 16. St. Judas did the same, Jud. v. 11.

Usage notes

• This name has been borne by Judas Maccabeus and the two apostles Judas Thaddaeus and also Judas Iscariot, because of whom the name is rarely used as a Christian name. The doublet Jude, on the other hand, is tolerably common, as only Judas Thaddaeus is known by that variant.

Derived terms

• Judas chair
• Judas cradle
• Judas goat
• Judas-hole
• Judas tree
• Judas window

 

Translations

one of the Apostles

• Afrikaans: Judas (af)
• Albanian: Juda m
• Arabic: يَهُوذَا (ar) m (yahūḏā)
• Armenian: Հուդա (hy) (Huda)

  Old Armenian: Յուդա (Yuda), Յուդայ (Yuday)

• Basque: Judas (eu)
• Belarusian: Іу́да m (Iúda), Ю́да m (Júda)
• Breton: Jud (br) m
• Bulgarian: Ю́да m (Júda)
• Catalan: Judes m
• Cebuano: Judas
• Chinese:

  Eastern Min: 猶大／犹大 (Iù-dâi)

  Mandarin: 猶大／犹大 (zh) (Yóudà)

• Coptic: ⲓⲟⲩⲇⲁⲥ (ioudas)
• Corsican: Ghjuda (co)
• Czech: Jidáš (cs) m
• Danish: Judas
• Dutch: Judas (nl) m
• Estonian: Juudas
• Faroese: Judas (fo) m
• Finnish: Juudas (fi)
• French: Judas (fr) m

  Old French: Judas

• Galician: Xudas m
• Georgian: იუდა (iuda)
• German: Judas (de) m
• Greek: Ιούδας (el) m (Ioúdas)

  Ancient Greek: Ἰούδας m (Ioúdas)

• Greenlandic: Judasi (kl)
• Hawaiian: Iuda
• Hebrew: יְהוּדָה (he) (y'hudá)
• Hindi: यहूदा m (yahūdā)
• Hungarian: Júdás (hu)
• Icelandic: Júdas m
• Ido: Iudas (io)
• Indonesian: Yudas
• Irish: Iúdás (ga) m
• Italian: Giuda (it) m
• Japanese: ユダ (Yuda)
• Korean: 유다 (Yuda)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Yehûda m

• Latin: Iūdās (la) m
• Latvian: Jūda m
• Lavukaleve: Jude
• Limburgish: Judas
• Lithuanian: Judas m
• Macedonian: Јуда m (Juda)
• Malay: Judas
• Maltese: Ġuda (mt) m
• Manx: Yude (gv)
• Maore Comorian: Yudasi
• Maori: Hūria
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Judas (no) m

  Nynorsk: Judas m

• Old English: Iūdas m
• Persian: یهودا (fa) (yahudâ)
• Plautdietsch: Judas
• Polish: Judasz (pl) m
• Portuguese: Judas (pt) m
• Romanian: Iuda m
• Russian: Иу́да (ru) m (Iúda)
• Scots: Jude
• Scottish Gaelic: Iùdas (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ју̑да m

  Roman: Jȗda (sh) m

• Slovak: Judáš m
• Slovene: Juda (sl) m, Judež m
• Spanish: Judas (es) m
• Swahili: Yuda (sw)
• Swedish: Judas (sv) n
• Tagalog: Hudas, Judas (tl)
• Tajik: Яҳудо (Yahudo)
• Tatar: Яһүд (Yahüd)
• Thai: จูดาส์
• Tigrinya: ይሁዳ (yəhuda)
• Turkish: Yehuda (tr)
• Ukrainian: Ю́да m (Júda)
• Urdu: یہودا m (yahūdā)
• Vietnamese: Giuđa
• Waray-Waray: Judas
• Welsh: Jwdas (cy)
• West Frisian: Judas
• Zealandic: Judas

book of the Bible

• Afrikaans: Judas (af)
• Albanian: Juda m
• Arabic: يَهُوذَا (ar) m (yahūḏā)
• Armenian: Հուդա (hy) (Huda)

  Old Armenian: Յուդա (Yuda), Յուդայ (Yuday)

• Basque: Judas (eu)
• Belarusian: Іу́да m (Iúda), Ю́да m (Júda)
• Breton: Jud (br) m
• Bulgarian: Ю́да m (Júda)
• Catalan: Judes m
• Cebuano: Judas
• Chinese:

  Eastern Min: 猶大書／犹大书 (Iù-dâi Cṳ̆)

  Mandarin: 猶大／犹大 (zh) (Yóudà)

• Corsican: Ghjuda (co)
• Czech: Judův m
• Danish: Judas
• Dutch: Judas (nl) m
• Estonian: Juudas
• Faroese: Judas (fo) m
• Finnish: Juudas (fi)
• French: Judas (fr) m

  Old French: Judas

• Georgian: იუდა (iuda)
• German: Judas (de) m
• Greek: Ιούδας (el) m (Ioúdas)

  Ancient Greek: Ἰούδας m (Ioúdas)

• Greenlandic: Judasi (kl)
• Hawaiian: Iuda
• Hebrew: יְהוּדָה (he) (y'hudá)
• Hindi: यहूदा m (yahūdā)
• Hungarian: Júdás (hu)
• Icelandic: Júdas m
• Ido: Iudas (io)
• Indonesian: Yudas
• Irish: Iúdás (ga) m
• Italian: Giuda (it) m
• Japanese: ユダ (Yuda)
• Korean: 유다 (Yuda)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Yehûda f

• Latin: Iūdās (la) m
• Latvian: Jūdas vēstule f
• Lavukaleve: Jude
• Limburgish: Judas
• Lithuanian: Judo laiškas (lt) f
• Macedonian: Јуда m (Juda)
• Malay: Judas
• Maltese: Ġuda (mt) m
• Manx: Yude (gv)
• Maore Comorian: Yudasi
• Maori: Hūria
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Judas (no) m

  Nynorsk: Judas m

• Persian: یهودا (fa) (yahudâ)
• Polish: List Judy f
• Portuguese: Judas (pt) m
• Romanian: Iuda m
• Russian: Иу́да (ru) m (Iúda)
• Scots: Jude
• Scottish Gaelic: Iùdas (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ју̑да m

  Roman: Jȗda (sh) m

• Slovak: Júdov list m
• Slovene: Juda (sl) m, Judež m
• Spanish: Judas (es) m
• Swahili: Yuda (sw)
• Swedish: Judas (sv) n
• Tagalog: Hudas, Judas (tl)
• Tajik: Яҳудо (Yahudo)
• Tatar: Яһүд (Yahüd)
• Thai: จูดาส์
• Turkish: Yehuda (tr)
• Ukrainian: Ю́да m (Júda)
• Urdu: یہودا m (yahūdā)
• Vietnamese: Giuđa
• Waray-Waray: Judas
• Welsh: Jwdas (cy) m
• West Frisian: Judas
• Zealandic: Judas

Noun

Judas (plural Judases)

2. A traitor; a person not to be trusted.
   • 2023 May 6, Hannah Murphy, “Twitter's co-founder moves against Musk”, in FT Weekend, page 9:

     If there was a moment when Jack Dorsey first morphed from Jesus to Judas in the minds of many former Twitter staffers, it was when he described Elon Musk as the “singular solution” to take over the social media platform he co-founded.

4. Short for Judas-hole (“small hole for spying”).
   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 706:

     The door was slammed in his face, and the Judas clicked shut, leaving him alone in the draughty street, now smelling of night and approaching snow.

   • 2001, Ken Follett, Jackdaws, Dutton, →ISBN, page 359:

     At the top of the stairs was a heavy door with a peephole. Flick banged on it and stood where her face could be seen through the judas.

Translations

traitor

• Belarusian: іу́да m (iúda), ю́да m (júda)
• Bulgarian: ю́да (bg) m (júda)
• Catalan: judes (ca) m
• Czech: jidáš (cs), Jidáš (cs)
• Danish: judas c
• Finnish: Juudas (fi)
• French: Judas (fr) m
• Greek: Εφιάλτης (el) m (Efiáltis)
• Irish: Iúdás (ga) m
• Italian: giuda (it) m
• Old Ruthenian: ию́да m (ijúda), іу́да m (iúda), їю́да m (ijúda)
• Polish: judasz (pl) m
• Portuguese: judas (pt) m
• Slovak: judáš
• Spanish: judas (es) m
• Ukrainian: іу́да m (iúda), ю́да m (júda)

Interjection

Judas

1. (minced oath, archaic) Jesus! (an exclamation used to express shock or surprise at something negative)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjy.dɑs/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: Ju‧das

Proper noun

Judas m

1. (biblical) Judas

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒy.da/, /ʒy.dɑ/
• Homophones: Juda, judas

Proper noun

Judas m

1. (biblical) Judas

Derived terms

• arbre de Judas
• Judas Iscariote

Noun

Judas m (plural Judas)

1. Alternative letter-case form of judas (“spyhole”)

German

Etymology 1

From Latin Judas, from Ancient Greek Ἰούδας (Ioúdas), from Hebrew יְהוּדָה (yəhūḏā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːdas/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Judas m (proper noun, strong, genitive Judas' or (with an article) Judas, plural Judas)

1. a male given name
   1. (biblical) Judas
   2. (biblical) Judas/Jude

Declension

Declension of Judas [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Judas	die	Judas
genitive	eines	des	Judas', Judas1	der	Judas
dative	einem	dem	Judas	den	Judas
accusative	einen	den	Judas	die	Judas

¹With an article.

Derived terms

• Judaskuss

Noun

Judas m (strong, genitive Judas, plural Judasse)

1. Judas, traitor

Declension

Declension of Judas [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Judas	die	Judasse
genitive	eines	des	Judas	der	Judasse
dative	einem	dem	Judas	den	Judassen
accusative	einen	den	Judas	die	Judasse

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːda(ː)s/, [ˈjuːˌdaːs], [ˈjuː.daˑs], [ˈjuː.das]

Proper noun

Judas

1. genitive singular of Juda

Further reading

• “Judas” in Duden online

Latin

Proper noun

Jūdās m sg (genitive Jūdae); first declension

1. Alternative form of Iūdās

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese Judas, from Latin Iūdās, from Ancient Greek Ἰούδᾱς (Ioúdās), from Hebrew יהודה.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʒu.dɐs/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʒu.dɐs/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʒu.dɐʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʒu.das/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʒu.dɐʃ/ [ˈʒu.ðɐʃ]

• Homophone: judas
• Hyphenation: Ju‧das

Proper noun

Judas m

1. (biblical) Judas (name of two of the Apostles)

Derived terms

• onde Judas perdeu as botas
• cu de Judas

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxudas/ [ˈxu.ð̞as]
• Rhymes: -udas
• Syllabification: Ju‧das

Proper noun

Judas m

1. (biblical) Jude (the book of the Bible)
2. (biblical) Judas (one of the Apostles)

   Synonym: Judas Iscariote

Derived terms

• árbol de Judas
• beso de Judas
• judas
• oreja de Judas

 

See also

• más falso que Judas

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek Ἰούδας (Ioúdas).

Proper noun

Judas c (genitive Judas)

1. (biblical) Judas

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Proper noun

Judas

1. genitive of Juda

Anagrams

• sjuda