Seph. /kah pah rddah"/ ; Ashk. /kah paw"rddeuh/ , n. , pl. kapparoth, kapparot Seph. /-rddawt"/ , kapparos Ashk. /-rddohs/ . Hebrew.
a ritual performed by some Orthodox Jews before Yom Kippur that consists of swinging a fowl around the head and reciting prayers that symbolically transfer the person's sins to the fowl.
[ kapparah lit., atonement ]