Sephardi /səˈfärdē/ I. noun 1. a Jew of Spanish or Portuguese descent. They retain their own distinctive customs and rituals, preserving Babylonian Jewish traditions rather than the Palestinian ones of the Ashkenazim. Compare with Ashkenazi. 2. any Jew of the Middle East or North Africa. II. derivatives Sephardic /səˈfärdik / adjective – origin modern Hebrew, from sĕp̄āraḏ, a country mentioned in Obad. 20 and taken to be Spain.
