yarmulka
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Yarmulka — Kippa Kippa und Menora Die Kippa (selten auch: Kipa oder Kippah, hebr. כִּפָּה / Pl. Kippot, jiddisch: יאַרמלקע, yarmulke oder קאפל, Kappel) ist eine vornehmlich in Ausübung der Religion gebräuchliche Kopfbedeckung des jüdis … Deutsch Wikipedia
yarmulka — n. headcovering worn by religious Jews, skullcap … English contemporary dictionary
yarmulka — noun a skullcap worn by religious Jews (especially at prayer) • Syn: ↑yarmulke, ↑yarmelke • Hypernyms: ↑skullcap … Useful english dictionary
yarmulke — /yahr meuhl keuh, meuh , yah /, n. Judaism. a skullcap worn, esp. during prayer and religious study, by Jewish males, esp. those adhering to Orthodox or Conservative tradition. Also, yarmelke, yarmulka. [1940 45; < Yiddish yarmlke < Polish… … Universalium
yar|mel|ke — «YAHR muhl kuh», noun. = yarmulka. (Cf. ↑yarmulka) … Useful english dictionary
yarmulke — noun Etymology: Yiddish yarmlke, from Polish jarmułka & Ukrainian yarmulka skullcap, of Turkic origin; akin to Turkish yağmurluk rainwear Date: 1903 a skullcap worn especially by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish males in the synagogue and the… … New Collegiate Dictionary
National Religious Party — מפד ל Leader Haim Moshe Shapira Yosef Burg Zevulun Hammer Yitzhak Levy Effi Eitam Zevulun Orlev … Wikipedia
Zucchetto — The zucchetto (plural zucchetti , Italian for small gourd ), also called pileolus, is a small skullcap worn by clerics of the Roman Catholic Church and within Anglicanism (the Episcopal Church in the U.S.). It was first adopted for practical… … Wikipedia
List of English words of Yiddish origin — For Yiddish words used by English speaking Jews (that are not necessarily English), see Yiddish words used by English speaking Jews. This is a list of English words of Yiddish origin, many of which have entered the English language by way of… … Wikipedia
List of English words of Turkic origin — This is a list of words that have entered into the English language from the Turkic languages. Many of them came via traders and soldiers from and in the Ottoman Empire. There are some Turkic words as well, most of them entered English via the… … Wikipedia
