כנף

From Proto-Semitic *kanap-, cognate with Akkadian 𒉺 (kappum, “wing, branch”), Arabic كَنَف‎ (kanaf, “wing, side, bosom”), Ge'ez ክንፍ (kənf, “wing, fin”).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /kaˈnaf/

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כָּנָף • (kanáf) f (dual indefinite כנפיים / כְּנָפַיִם‎, plural indefinite כְּנָפוֹת‎, singular construct כְּנַף־‎, dual construct כַּנְפֵי־‎, plural construct כַּנְפוֹת־‎) [pattern: קָטָל]

1. A wing
   • Tanach, Zechariah 5:9:

     ‏וָאֶשָּׂא עֵינַי וָאֵרֶא וְהִנֵּה שְׁתַּיִם נָשִׁים יוֹצְאוֹת וְרוּחַ בְּכַנְפֵיהֶם וְלָהֵנָּה כְנָפַיִם כְּכַנְפֵי הַחֲסִידָה ותשנה אֶת הָאֵיפָה בֵּין הָאָרֶץ וּבֵין הַשָּׁמָיִם׃‎‎

     va'esa' 'einai va'ere' v'hine sh'tayim nashim yots'ot v'ruakh b'khanfeihem v'lahena kh'nafayim k'khanfei hakhasida vatishena et ha'eyfa ben ha'arets uven hashamayim.

     And I lifted my eyes and I saw, and behold, two women emerging and there was wind in their wings and they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they carried the ephah between the land and the sky.

   • אפרת גוש, לראות את האור

     ‏ולרגע יכולתי לברוח כנוצה על כְּנָפָהּ של ציפור‎

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2. fender, mudguard

• As with many other nouns, the plural form is rarely used in modern Hebrew even when referring to more than two wings.

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

• כנף‎ on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he