Definition of Kippa

1. a religious skullcap worn by Jewish males [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kippa

kiosklike
kiosks
kiosque
kiosques
kioways
kip
kip down
kipa
kipe
kiped
kipes
kipfel
kipfels
kiping
kipp
kippa (current term)
kippage
kippages
kippah
kippahs
kippas
kipped
kippen
kippens
kipper
kipper tie
kipper ties
kippered
kippered herring
kippered salmon

Literary usage of Kippa

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1900)
"+ ' Icel. kippa, Swed. dial, kippa, Norweg. kippa, to snatch. Kirk, a church. (Scand. - E. - Gk.) ME kirke. — Icel. kirkja; borrowed from A S. drice, circe, ..."

2. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Du. kippen, to hatch ; also to catch, seize. + Norweg. kippa, to snatch, &t>. ; Aasen. + Swed. dial, kippa, to snatch ; Kietz. + Icel. kippa, to pull, ..."

3. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1867)
"CHIP, CHIP-UP, va and «. To trip, be tripped up, strike with one's foot against some obstacle or stumbling block. ON kippa ... Sw. and Sw. dial, kippa (to ..."

4. A Grammar of the Greek Language: Chiefly from the German of Raphael Kühner by William Edward Jelf (1851)
"... kippa, and those whose gen. ends in i)s, as pifa, ijs. 2. The vocative is always short from nom. in TJS, long from those in as ; in the other endings it ..."

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