Yenta 's a Yiddish female name. In the age of Yiddish theater, it started referring to a or . The word has since become Yinglish (a Yiddish loanword in American Jewish English). It was also the name of the matchmaker in the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof and the word has also come to mean "matchmaker" in modern usage. The name of the Linux CardBus controller driver, which brings together Cardbus cards with the rest of the computer. It's also the fictional electronic match making PDA… (More on Yenta)