kippa

See also: Kippa

English

Noun

kippa (plural kippas or kippot)

1. Alternative spelling of kippah.

Anagrams

• Papik

French

Etymology

From Hebrew כִּפָּה (kipá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ki.pa/

• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

kippa f (plural kippas)

1. kippah, skullcap

Further reading

• “kippa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkipːɒ]
• Hyphenation: kip‧pa
• Rhymes: -pɒ

Noun

kippa (plural kippák)

1. alternative form of kipa (“kippah”)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	kippa	kippák
accusative	kippát	kippákat
dative	kippának	kippáknak
instrumental	kippával	kippákkal
causal-final	kippáért	kippákért
translative	kippává	kippákká
terminative	kippáig	kippákig
essive-formal	kippaként	kippákként
essive-modal	kippául	—
inessive	kippában	kippákban
superessive	kippán	kippákon
adessive	kippánál	kippáknál
illative	kippába	kippákba
sublative	kippára	kippákra
allative	kippához	kippákhoz
elative	kippából	kippákból
delative	kippáról	kippákról
ablative	kippától	kippáktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	kippáé	kippáké
non-attributive possessive – plural	kippáéi	kippákéi

Possessive forms of kippa

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	kippám	kippáim
2nd person sing.	kippád	kippáid
3rd person sing.	kippája	kippái
1st person plural	kippánk	kippáink
2nd person plural	kippátok	kippáitok
3rd person plural	kippájuk	kippáik

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈcʰɪhpa/
• Rhymes: -ɪhpa

Etymology 1

From Old Norse kippa (“to pull; snatch”), related to Middle English kippen ("to seize"; > Scots kip (“to jerk; pull; filch”)), Middle Dutch kippen (“to seize; catch; grip”).

Verb

kippa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative kippti, supine kippt)

1. to pull, jerk
2. (impersonal) to take after, to resemble

Conjugation

kippa – active voice (germynd)

infinitive nafnháttur		að kippa
supine sagnbót		kippt
present participle lýsingarháttur nútíðar		kippandi
		indicative framsöguháttur			subjunctive viðtengingarháttur
		present nútíð	past þátíð		present nútíð	past þátíð
singular	ég	kippi	kippti		kippi	kippti
	þú	kippir	kipptir		kippir	kipptir
	hann, hún, það	kippir	kippti		kippi	kippti
plural	við	kippum	kipptum		kippum	kipptum
	þið	kippið	kipptuð		kippið	kipptuð
	þeir, þær, þau	kippa	kipptu		kippi	kipptu
		imperative boðháttur
singular	þú	kipp (þú), kipptu
plural	þið	kippið (þið), kippiði1

¹ Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

kippast – mediopassive voice (miðmynd)

infinitive nafnháttur		að kippast
supine sagnbót		kippst
present participle lýsingarháttur nútíðar		kippandist (rare; see appendix)
		indicative framsöguháttur			subjunctive viðtengingarháttur
		present nútíð	past þátíð		present nútíð	past þátíð
singular	ég	kippist	kipptist		kippist	kipptist
	þú	kippist	kipptist		kippist	kipptist
	hann, hún, það	kippist	kipptist		kippist	kipptist
plural	við	kippumst	kipptumst		kippumst	kipptumst
	þið	kippist	kipptust		kippist	kipptust
	þeir, þær, þau	kippast	kipptust		kippist	kipptust
		imperative boðháttur
singular	þú	kippst (þú), kippstu
plural	þið	kippist (þið), kippisti1

¹ Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Derived terms

• kippa að sér hendinni (“to back out of”)
• kippa í lag (“to put in order, to put right”)
• kippa í liðinn (“to put (a bone) into joint; to straighten out”)
• kippa fótunum undan (“to knock the ground from under”)

Related terms

• kippur
• kippóttur

Etymology 2

From Old Norse kippa (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *kippǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gey- (“to bend, twist, entwine”). Related to Dutch kiep, German Low German Kiepe, English kipe.

Noun

kippa f (genitive singular kippu, nominative plural kippur)

1. bunch, sheaf
2. pack, bundle

Declension

Declension of kippa (feminine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	kippa	kippan	kippur	kippurnar
accusative	kippu	kippuna	kippur	kippurnar
dative	kippu	kippunni	kippum	kippunum
genitive	kippu	kippunnar	kippa, kippna	kippanna, kippnanna

Derived terms

• bjórkippa

Etymology 3

Noun

kippa

1. indefinite genitive plural of kippur

Japanese

Romanization

kippa

1. Rōmaji transcription of キッパ

Swedish

Etymology 1

Likely onomatopoeic.

Verb

kippa (present kippar, preterite kippade, supine kippat, imperative kippa)

1. to gasp (for air, with great effort)

   att kippa efter andan/luft

   to gasp for air

Conjugation

Conjugation of kippa (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	kippa		kippas
supine	kippat		kippats
imperative	kippa		—
imper. plural1	kippen		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	kippar	kippade	kippas	kippades
ind. plural1	kippa	kippade	kippas	kippades
subjunctive2	kippe	kippade	kippes	kippades
present participle		kippande
past participle		—

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Etymology 2

From Hebrew כִּפָּה (kipá). Attested since the 1970s.

Noun

kippa c

1. kippah, yarmulke

Declension

Declension of kippa

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	kippa	kippas
	definite	kippan	kippans
plural	indefinite	kippor	kippors
	definite	kipporna	kippornas

References

• kippa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• kippa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• kippa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• kippa in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• ikapp

Yagara

Noun

kippa

1. boy on the cusp of being a man

References

• State Library of Queensland, 2019 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ‘WORD OF THE WEEK’: WEEK EIGHTEEN., 13 May 2019.