Excerpt from 'Star Trek: The Official Guide to the Animated Series'
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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.
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It's a Yiddish term.
It's also the German word for human.
I'm German myself ;) But in this context (great human being) it's not used here as a single word, perhaps "eine Seele von Mensch sein" (to be a good-hearted soul).
Yeah, but English picked it up through Yiddish by way of Ashkenazi entertainers. When I see it in German I have to remind myself to not apply the implication that the person is one to be admired