kippah

English

Men wearing kippahs

Alternative forms

• kippa, kipah, kipa, kippoh

Etymology

Hebrew כִּפָּה.

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, 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 (pt) m
• Russian: ермо́лка (ru) f (jermólka), кипа́ (ru) f (kipá)
• Spanish: kipá (es) f
• Swedish: kippa (sv) c
• Yiddish: יאַרמלקע‏‎ f (yarmlke)