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yamacha

yamacha is the alternative spelling of yarmulke.

Meaning of yarmulke

Noun

yarmulke (plural yarmulkes)

  1. (Judaism) A skullcap worn by religious Jewish males (especially during prayer).
    • And I always feel uncomfortable dur­ing the High Holy Days watching people in yarmulkes rushing through the streets, knowing they’ll be swaying and moaning something ancient and indecipherable, even to me.1991 October 1, Richard Goldstein, “The New Anti-Semitism: A Geshrei”, in Village Voice, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2020, page 33
    Synonyms:
    kippah, kappel, skullcap

Forms of yamacha

pluralyamachas

Questions about yamacha

What is yamacha the alternative spelling of?
Yamacha is the alternative spelling of yarmulke.

Words near yamacha in the dictionary

  1. yam sticks
  2. yam yam
  3. yam yams
  4. Yama
  5. yamabushi
  6. yamacha
  7. yamachas
  8. Yamacraw
  9. Yamacraws
  10. Yamada
  11. Yamadas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yamacha (page history and authors); yarmulke (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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