kippah

kippah

English

Men wearing kippahs

Alternative forms

• kippa, kipah, kipa, kippoh

Etymology

From Hebrew כיפה‎ (kipá).

Noun

kippah (plural kippot or kippahs or kippoth)

1. The cloth skullcap or yarmulke traditionally worn by male Jews.

Synonyms

• yarmulke
• skullcap

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: please add this translation if you can German: Kippa (de) f, Kippah (de) f

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