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Kippah
is a Yiddish word (ירמולקא)
deriving from the Polish word jarmułka, meaning "cap",
ultimately possibly of Turkish origin.
A folk etymology proposes that it is derived from an Aramaic
phrase, yarei malka, meaning "fear of the King [i.e.
God]," or from the Hebrew, ya'arei me'Elokai, "those
who tremble before the Lord."
The Hebrew-language equivalent, kippah (כיפה),
plural kippot (כיפות), actually
means "dome", same as Arabic Qubbah (قبة).
The Gothic word kappel (cf. chapel) still exists in the
Yiddish term (קאפל) today and
survives in the Viennese dialect word kappl (hat). The
equivalent of the Hebrew word is the French calotte and
the Italian calotta, both referring to an architectural
dome.
