And I always feel uncomfortable during the High Holy Days watching people in yarmulkes rushing through the streets, knowing they’ll be swaying and moaning something ancient and indecipherable, even to me.
Source: wiktionary
Yarmulke
//ˈjɑ(ɹ)mə(l)kə//
Synonyms for "yarmulke" (7 found)
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Translations
46 translations across 32 languages.
Afrikaans
3 entries- jarmoelka noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
- kippa noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
- skedelmus noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Arabic
2 entries- قُبَّة noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
- كِبَّة noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Belarusian
1 entries- ярмо́лка noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ермо́лка noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 卡巴 noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Czech
2 entries- jarmulka noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
- kipa noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Esperanto
1 entries- kipao noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Finnish
1 entries- kipa noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
French
1 entries- kippa noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
German
1 entries- Jarmulke noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Greek
1 entries- σκούφος noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Hebrew
1 entries- כִּפָּה noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Hungarian
2 entries- jarmulke noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
- kipa noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Indonesian
1 entries- kippah noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Italian
1 entries- kippah noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Japanese
3 entries- キッパ noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
- キッパー noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
- ヤムルカ noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Korean
2 entries- 야물커 noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
- 키파 noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Macedonian
1 entries- јармулка noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Malay
1 entries- kippah noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Persian
2 entries- کیپا noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
- یاماکا noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Polish
1 entries- jarmułka noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Portuguese
1 entries- quipá noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Russian
2 entries- ермо́лка noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
- кипа́ noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- jarmùlka noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
- јарму̀лка noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Slovak
2 entries- jarmulka noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
- kipa noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Slovene
1 entries- jarmulka noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Spanish
1 entries- kipá noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Swedish
1 entries- kippa noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Tagalog
1 entries- kipa noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Turkish
3 entries- kipa noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
- kippa noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
- yarmulke noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ярму́лка noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Yiddish
1 entries- יאַרמלקע noun (skullcap worn by religious Jewish males)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
But once Dr. Levenson, who works for the Indian Health Service and wears a colorful tapestry yarmulke, has alerted the tiny network, it almost seems as if we have stepped into Yiddishland.
Source: wiktionary
“I call on all citizens of Berlin and across Germany to wear the yarmulke (as the skullcap is known in Yiddish) next Saturday if there are new, intolerable attacks targeting Israel and Jews on the occasion of Al-Quds Day in Berlin,” said Felix Klein in a statement.
Source: wiktionary
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