2006-10-31 03:02:16 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yarmulke is pronounced yamaka.
2006-10-31 03:06:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kippah Vs Yamaka
2016-10-05 02:58:32 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, Yarmulke/yamaka is Yiddish, Kippah is Hebrew.
Yarmulke is the proper way to pronounce the word, but people sometimes say Yamaka instead.
It's a contraction of Yir'u M'eloka, Fear of God, which hints to us that the reason we wear them is to remind us that there is someone "above us"
2006-11-02 08:48:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yarmulke is a more correct transliteration of the word. 'yamaka' is a common pronounciation. Both refer to the same thing...the head covering worn by men.
yarmulke is a contraction of yireh malka which means fear of the king.
2006-10-31 04:55:17 · answer #4 · answered by mzJakes 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yarmulke is pronounced "yamaka" by *some*, but certainly not all, American Jews. It is not, however, the standard pronunciation. Alternative spellings include yarmlke, yarmelke, and yarmulka, but in all cases you should pronounce the "r".
I just call it a kippah.
2006-10-31 03:08:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What Is A Yarmulke
2016-12-16 12:55:45 · answer #6 · answered by rasavong 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yarmulke is how it is spelled in Yiddish.
Yamaka is how it is pronounced in "English" or Yiddish.
(In Hebrew it is called a Kippa-pronounciation.)
2006-11-03 20:52:11 · answer #7 · answered by וואלה 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first of yarmulka is not Jewish religon it is Kipah in Yiddush. and to answer your question yamaka is not a word, the correct way of saying it is yarmulka.
2006-10-31 12:45:57 · answer #8 · answered by red sox! 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Spelling. Many Jewish/Yiddish words have variations in spelling, some of them phonetic.
2006-10-31 03:08:05 · answer #9 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yarmulke, yamaka, kippah, kapel, yid lid... (or target, if you're german) - all the same thing
2006-10-31 03:12:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋