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Do you say "yarmulka" or "kippa"?
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yarmulka |
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39% |
[ 63 ] |
kippa |
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31% |
[ 50 ] |
koppel |
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25% |
[ 41 ] |
other (please specify) |
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2% |
[ 4 ] |
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Isramom8
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Sat, Dec 06 2008, 3:13 pm
Do you say "yarmulka" or "kippa"?
Where do you live? How do you identify yourself (Litvish, Chassidish - what kind, Israeli, American, French, English...)?
I'm American-Israeli, Litvish, and I say "kippa". Growing up, my American-with-European-background becoming-frum parents said "yarmulka" until we went to an MO school.
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shabbatiscoming
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Sat, Dec 06 2008, 3:20 pm
always been and still is kippa. grew up MO and now live in a DL / MO community.
my grandfather always called it a koppel:) but it didnot wear off on us though...who knows.
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Raisin
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Sat, Dec 06 2008, 3:25 pm
I grew up calling it a "cupple".
I call it yarmulka to my kids, kippa to students in school.
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yo'ma
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Sat, Dec 06 2008, 7:14 pm
I call it yarmulka, but my kids are starting to call it kippa because of the school that they're in. The kids there probably don't even know what a yarmulka is. They don't know yiddish at all because they're sefardim. I grew up litvish.
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Lady Godiva
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Sat, Dec 06 2008, 7:16 pm
Kippah.
Sephardic American.
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cassandra
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Sat, Dec 06 2008, 7:16 pm
I call it all three (the last one usually a bit in jest).
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Raisin
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Sat, Dec 06 2008, 7:21 pm
there is a kids book called "the yarmulka, kippa, coppel book". Each time the word occurs, there is a little picture of a kippa and you just say what you call it.
I thought cuppel was only an engluish word. I never knew anyone else in the world even knew what it meant! (like loo)
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cassandra
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Sat, Dec 06 2008, 7:23 pm
I thought it was yiddish for "hat"
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yo'ma
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Sat, Dec 06 2008, 7:24 pm
Raisin wrote: | I thought cuppel was only an engluish word. I never knew anyone else in the world even knew what it meant! (like loo) |
I thought it was slang in yiddish for head.
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Lady Godiva
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Sat, Dec 06 2008, 7:28 pm
yo'ma wrote: | Raisin wrote: | I thought cuppel was only an engluish word. I never knew anyone else in the world even knew what it meant! (like loo) |
I thought it was slang in yiddish for head. |
I've never even heard the term before.
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cassandra
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Sat, Dec 06 2008, 7:36 pm
yo'ma wrote: | Raisin wrote: | I thought cuppel was only an engluish word. I never knew anyone else in the world even knew what it meant! (like loo) |
I thought it was slang in yiddish for head. |
Right, that's what I meant. I don't speak Yiddish at all, I just like the way it sounds.
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Maya
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Sat, Dec 06 2008, 7:40 pm
cassandra wrote: | I thought it was yiddish for "hat" | It is that, too. But it's one of the Yiddish words I refuse to use in reference to a hat.
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greenfire
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Sat, Dec 06 2008, 7:41 pm
yarmulke "yirah malka" when I want to get nit picky ... but then shouldn't it be "yirah melech" with us saying yirmulik ...
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avigailmiriam
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Sat, Dec 06 2008, 7:45 pm
If you're one of my gentile coworkers it is "that hat thing you Jews wear..." (The one who said that meant it in the nicest possible Way. We'd been talking about them earlier and he had a question for me about them. Couldn't remember the word. I told him it was a yarmulke, FTR.)
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Lady Godiva
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Sat, Dec 06 2008, 7:45 pm
greenfire wrote: | yarmulke "yirah malka" when I want to get nit picky ... but then shouldn't it be "yirah melech" with us saying yirmulik ... |
I was under the impression that it was from "yirah me-elokah" (fear of God).
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greenfire
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Sat, Dec 06 2008, 7:46 pm
a beanie
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greenfire
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Sat, Dec 06 2008, 7:47 pm
Lady Godiva wrote: | greenfire wrote: | yarmulke "yirah malka" when I want to get nit picky ... but then shouldn't it be "yirah melech" with us saying yirmulik ... |
I was under the impression that it was from "yirah me-elokah" (fear of God). |
oh thanx - I neva knew
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Lady Godiva
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Sat, Dec 06 2008, 7:47 pm
Isramom8, you forgot to add "beenie" as a choice. I've heard that used before...
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Lady Godiva
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Sat, Dec 06 2008, 7:47 pm
greenfire wrote: | a beanie |
yeah
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