קיפוד

Hebrew

Alternative forms

• (hedgehog): קוּפָּד (quppā́ḏ) (Mishnaic Hebrew)

Etymology

Root
ק־פ־ד (q-p-d)

Considered borrowed from a predecessor of the later Aramaic קֻפְדָּא / קוּפְדָּא (qup̄dā), as well as Arabic قُنْفُذ (qunfuḏ), while the meaning of an owl well has a different identity; see the Arabic for more.

Noun

קיפוד / קִפּוֹד • (qippṓḏ) m

1. hedgehog
   • Tanach, Isaiah 14:23:
   • Tanach, Isaiah 34:11:
     (if not owl)
2. (obsolete) short-eared owl (a species of owl, Asio flammeus)
   • Tanach, Zephaniah 2:14:
   • Tanach, Isaiah 34:11:
     (if not hedgehog)

Descendants

• → Hawaiian: kipoka

References

• “קפוד” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

Further reading

• קיפוד on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) “קוּפָּד”, in A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 1337b
• other references are at the Arabic قُنْفُذ (qunfuḏ).