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kippah

kippah

English

Men wearing kippahs

Alternative forms

kippa, kipah, kipa, kippoh

Noun

kippah ‎(plural kippot or kippahs or kippoth)

The cloth skullcap or yarmulke traditionally worn by male Jews.

Synonyms

Translations

skullcap

Arabic: كِبَّة f ‎(kibba)
Armenian: թասակ (hy) ‎(tʿasak), կիպա ‎(kipa)
Catalan: quipà f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 卡巴 ‎(kǎbā)
Czech: kipa f
Dutch: keppel (nl) m
Finnish: kipa (fi)
French: kippa (fr) f
Georgian:
German: Kippa (de) f, Kippah (de) f

Greek: σκούφος (el) m ‎(skoúfos)
Hebrew: כִּפָּה (he) f ‎(kipá)
Hungarian: kipa, koponyatető (hu), jarmulke
Italian: kippah (it) f, chippa f
Japanese: キッパー ‎(kippā), キッパ ‎(kippa)
Polish: jarmułka (pl) f
Portuguese: quipá m
Russian: ермо́лка (ru) f ‎(jermólka), кипа́ (ru) f ‎(kipá)
Spanish: kipá (es) f
Swedish: kippa (sv) c
Yiddish: יאַרמלקע f ‎(yarmlke)