kippa

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English

Noun

kippa (plural kippas or kippot)

  1. Alternative spelling of kippah

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From Hebrew כִּפָּה (kipá).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ki.pa/
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Noun

kippa f (plural kippas)

  1. kippah, skullcap

Further reading

Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

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 kippa
supine sagnbót kippt
present participle
kippandi
indicative
subjunctive
present
past
present
past
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 kippast
supine sagnbót kippst
present participle
kippandist (rare; see appendix)
indicative
subjunctive
present
past
present
past
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

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

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

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Anagrams

Yagara

Noun

kippa

  1. boy on the cusp of being a man

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