קיפוד
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Hebrew[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (hedgehog): קוּפָּד (quppā́ḏ) (Mishnaic Hebrew)
Etymology[edit]
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ק־פ־ד (q-p-d) |
Considered borrowed from a predecessor of the later Aramaic קֻפְדָּא / קוּפְדָּא (qup̄dā), as well as Arabic قُنْفُذ (qunfuḏ), while the meaning of an owl well has a different identity; see the Arabic for more.
Noun[edit]
- hedgehog
- (if not owl)
- (obsolete) short-eared owl (Asio flammeus)
- (if not hedgehog)
Descendants[edit]
- → Hawaiian: kipoka
References[edit]
- “קפוד” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
Further reading[edit]
- קיפוד on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he
- Jastrow, Marcus (1903) “קוּפָּד”, in A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 1337b
- other references are at the Arabic قُنْفُذ (qunfuḏ).