kapp

• cap

Ultimately cognate to cap.

kapp (plural kapps)

1. A headcovering worn by many women of certain Anabaptist Christian traditions (especially Mennonites and Amish) for religious reasons.
   • 2018 April 1, Debby Giusti, Amish Rescue: Faith in the Face of Crime, Harlequin, →ISBN:

     “It is a prayer kapp. Amish women cover their heads when they pray.” “But you wear it all the time?” “This is true. We are always ready to pray when our head is covered.” “I pray but perhaps not often enough,” Sarah admitted.

   • 2021 December 28, Patricia Johns, Blended Amish Blessings, Harlequin, →ISBN:

     All three of the women were older with gray hair beneath white kapps. The Mennonite […]

• fedderdale, hinnerdale

From Middle Low German schap, from Old Saxon skap, from Proto-West Germanic *skap (“shape”), from Proto-Germanic *skapą.

• IPA^(key): /kɑpːː/

kapp (genitive kapi, partitive kappi)

1. cupboard
2. locker

• külmkapp

• “kapp”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
• “kapp”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “kapp”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• kapp in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

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kapp

1. singular imperative of kappen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of kappen

From Old Norse kapp (“energy, zeal”), itself a variant of kamp (“battle”), probably via Middle Low German from Latin campus (“field, battlefield”).

• IPA^(key): /kʰahp/
• Rhymes: -ahp

kapp n (genitive singular kapps, no plural)

1. zeal, eagerness
2. energy, effort
3. competition

• (zeal): ákafi, áfergja, gríð, fylgi
• (energy): atorka
• (competition): keppni

• kappgirni (“competitive spirit”)
• kappmikill (“energetic”)
• kappnógur (“plentiful, abundant”)
• kappræða (“dispute, debate”)
• kappsamur (“eager; energetic”)
• kappsemi (“energy, effort”)

• kappi (“hero, champion”)

From Latin caput, via German Kap.

kapp n (definite singular kappet, indefinite plural kapp, definite plural kappa or kappene)

1. a cape, headland, promontory

• Kapp Verde
• Nordkapp

• “kapp” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin caput, via German Kap.

kapp n (definite singular kappet, indefinite plural kapp, definite plural kappa)

1. a cape, headland, promontory

• Kapp Verde
• Nordkapp

• “kapp” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• ikapp

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kapp

1. sometimes i kapp is used instead of ikapp (which see)

• kappas
• kappkörning
• kapplöpning
• kapprodd
• kapprusta
• kappsegling

• ifatt
• kappa

• kapp in Svensk ordbok.