'Yeshiva' is a word borrowed from Yiddish 'yeshiva'. The word entered the English language some time around 1760.
yeshiva [noun] [1760]
- a school for talmudic study
- an Orthodox Jewish rabbinical seminary
- a Jewish day school providing secular and religious instruction
See 'yeshiva' on the Loan Words Map
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Etymology: Late Hebrew 'yĕshībhāh'
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