moishe 46
It is a colloquial way of calling the practicing Jew, very respectful of his traditions. It is used by the same collective, but it was also taken by the lunfardo where any Jew is generalized. It comes from Hebrew or íddish 1502; 1465; 1513; 1462; 1473; 1492; (Moshe, "Moses" prophet also recognized by Christianity and Islam), as an apocope of "muishele". See Russian ( lunfardo ) .