kapp

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. (Also spelled cap.)
   • 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 […]

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

kapp (genitive kapi, partitive kappi)

1. cupboard
2. locker

• külmkapp

• kapp in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik
• kapp in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat
• kapp in Raadik, M., editor (2018), Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, →ISBN
• kapp in Sõnaveeb

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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.