Is 'kibbutz' English, or is it actually Yiddish?

'Kibbutz' is a word borrowed from Yiddish 'kibbutz'. The word entered the English language some time around 1926.

kibbutz [noun] [1926]

A communal farm or settlement in Israel

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Etymology: Modern Hebrew 'qibbūṣ'

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