kittel
See also: Kittel
English
editNoun
editkittel (plural kittels)
- A white linen or cotton robe worn by religious Ashkenazi Jews on holidays, in the synagogue, or at home when leading the Passover seder.
- 2008, Mordechai Schmutter, Don’t Yell Challah in a Crowded Matzah Bakery:
- When I got married, my grandmother showed up at the wedding with a bottle of the whitest wine she could find, so that we wouldn’t ruin my seventy-five dollar kittel and my wife’s thousand-dollar wedding dress. (And at this point I would like to point out that I have worn my kittel at least twice a year since then, not counting the Purim that I dressed up as a doctor, and my wife has not worn her wedding dress at all, not even to other people’s weddings.)
Anagrams
editDanish
editNoun
editkittel c
- white coat (as worn during work in a laboratory or medical work)
Declension
editSwedish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse ketill, from Proto-Germanic *katilaz, from Late Latin catillus.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkittel c
- a cauldron, a kettle (large cooking vessel)
- 1936, Evert Taube (lyrics and music), “Byssan lull”[1]:
- Byssan lull, koka kittelen [kitteln] full, där kommer tre vandringsmän på vägen. Byssan lull, koka kittelen [kitteln] full, där kommer tre vandringsmän på vägen. Den ene är så halt, den andre är så blind, den tredje har så trasiga kläder.
- Byssan lull ["lull lull!", to lull (a child) to sleep – usually "vyssan lull"], cook ["boil," but also used for cooking through boiling] the cauldron full, [over] there comes three wanderers on the road. Byssan lull, cook the cauldron full, [over] there comes three wanderers on the road. One is so halt [limping, lame], the other is so blind [sic – "so blind" sounds the same in Swedish], the third has such tattered clothes [Ene/andre is usually used of two people, like in English, but occasionally of more people].
Declension
editDeclension of kittel
Derived terms
edit- häxkittel (“witch's cauldron”)
References
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