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Yiddish
- קאַפּאָרע (kapore) — Soviet phonetic spelling
Etymology
From Hebrew כַּפָּרָה (kaporá).
Pronunciation
Noun
כּפּרה • (kapore) f, plural כּפּרות (kapores)
- expiation, redemption
- a fowl (especially a chicken) representing a scapegoat
- (figurative) scapegoat
- (in the plural) atonement ceremony performed the day before Yom Kippur
Derived terms
- אַ כּפּרה פֿאַר (a kapore far, “to be worthless (compared to)”)
- אַ שיינע ריינע כּפּרה! (a sheyne reyne kapore!, “serves them right! that'll teach them!”)
- שלאָגן כּפּרות (shlogn kapores, “perform the ceremony with the help of a fowl”)
- שלאָגן כּפּרות מיט (shlogn kapores mit, “(humorous) revile, scoff at, abuse; (familiar) abandon”)
- טויגן אויף כּפּרות (toygn oyf kapores, “to be good for nothing, be useless”)
- דאַרפֿן אויף כּפּרות (darfn oyf kapores, “to have no use for”)
- די כּפּרה ווערן נאָך/פֿאַר (di kapore vern nokh/far, “to develop a crush on, to fall for”)
- זאָל דאָ׳ס זײַן די כּפּרה פֿאַר (zol do's zayn di kapore far, “may that suffice to redeem someone (from their deserved punishment)”)
- זײַן אַ כּפּרה פֿאַר (zayn a kapore far, “to be punished instead of”)
- זײַן די כּפּרה נאָך/פֿאַר (zayn di kapore nokh/far, “to be madly in love with, to be crazy about”)
References
- Justus van de Kamp et al., “כּפּרה” in Jiddisch-Nederlands Woordenboek , Amsterdam: Stichting Jiddische Lexicografie, 1987-present (ongoing). .
- Beinfeld, Solon, Bochner, Harry (2013) “כּפּרה”, in Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, →ISBN