Yiddish: meshugas/mishegas

[ndisdabest]

I've been looking for how to properly spell this word for quite some time -- I'm thinking it might be a Yiddish term, but I really have no idea. I have not been able to find it ANYWHERE.

It's pronounced "mij-ah-gots" and means something like "a disaster" or maybe "chaos." For example:

When the train crashed, the scene looked like a total migigatz(sp?).

Can anyone help?

 

[jinti]

Maybe meshugas/mishegas? It means craziness or madness. (Yes, it's Yiddish, so maybe the Spanish-English forum isn't the best place for our discussion. )

 

[ndisdabest]

Maybe meshugas/mishegas? It means craziness or madness. (Yes, it's Yiddish, so maybe the Spanish-English forum isn't the best place for our discussion. )

Interesting, I'll have to look into that. And yeah, I know I put it in the wrong forum...my bad there.

 

[galil46]

it comes from the Hebrew word 'meshuga' which means crazy person

 

[panjabigator]

I believe I've heard the word "meshugana" before. Is it related?

 

[Flaminius]

Meshugener (I adopt the most general spelling I have encountered) is a Yiddish noun meaning "crazy one," which is derived from meshuga (adjective; Yiddish, ultimately from Hebrew) and the suffix -er.

 

[ilbisaac]

משוגעת

Meshugas or mishegas


interesting to note, also, the normal use of "meshuge."
a משוגעים־העמדל is a straightjacket (meshugo'im hemdl)