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хипеш

Russian khipesh/kipish, 'a fuss, a row', is usually traced to Hebrew ḥippûś 'search' through Yiddish khipesh 'a search, a raid'; in Odessa cant it also named a scam in which a woman lured a client and her partner robbed him.

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The story you may have heard

That kipish is native Russian, from kipet' 'to boil' (a 'boiling-over' of noise). The k- spelling is probably that association at work on a borrowed khipesh, not the origin.

The road to Russian

300 CEMishnaic Hebrew

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.

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